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The Science of Light Amplification: An Extensive Laser course

Prof. Paramita Deb · Bhabha Atomic Research Centre(BARC)-IIT Bombay

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Lectures

week-01

  1. Week 01: Lecture 01: Introduction to Lasers and the Electromagnetic Spectrum Video
  2. Week 01:Lecture 02: Stimulated Emission & Spontaneous Emission & Properties of Laser. Video
  3. Week 01: Lecture 03: Population Inversion in a Laser medium Video
  4. Week 01: Lecture 04: Laser Oscillations and the Optical Resonator Video
  5. Week 01: Lecture 05: Line Broadening Mechanism - 1 Video

week-02

  1. Week 02: Lecture 06: Line Broadening Mechanism - 2 Video
  2. Week 02: Lecture 07: Laser Resonators - 1 Video
  3. Week 02: Lecture 08: Laser Resonators - 2 Video
  4. Week 02: Lecture 09: Gas laser examples. Video
  5. Week 02: Lecture 10: Gas lasers and Solid State Lasers. Video

week-03

  1. Week 03: Lecture 11: Solid State Lasers Video
  2. Week 03: Lecture 12: Pulsed Lasers and Optical shutters Video
  3. Week 03: Lecture 13: Modes and Mode Locking Video
  4. Week 03: Lecture 14: The technique of Mode Locking Video
  5. Week 03: Lecture 15: Time Bandwidth product and Ultra short pulse Video

week-04

  1. Week 04: Lecture 16: Non - linear phenomenon in optics Video
  2. Week 04: Lecture 17: Self - focusing and Self - phase - modulation Video
  3. Week 04: Lecture 18: Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) Video
  4. Week 04: Lecture 19: Phase matching and SHG Video
  5. Week 04: Lecture 20: Anisotropic medium and SHG Video

week-05

  1. Week 05: Lecture 21: Birefringent Crystals and Phase Matching Video
  2. Week 05: Lecture 22 : Semiconductor Basics Video
  3. Week 05: Lecture 23: Photon Absorption & Emission in Semiconductors Video
  4. Week 05: Lecture 24: p-n Junction and the Semiconductor Laser Video
  5. Week 05: Lecture 25: Types of Semiconductor Laser. Video

week-06

  1. Week 06: Lecture 26: Nuclear Fusion Video
  2. Week 06: Lecture 27: Inertial Confinement Fusion Video
  3. Week 06: Lecture 28: Master Oscillator and Power Amplifier Chain. Video
  4. Week 06: Lecture 29: Amplifier Chain. Video
  5. Week 06: Lecture 30: Chirped Pulse Amplification-1 Video

week-07

  1. Week 07: Lecture 31: Chirped Pulse Amplification-2 Video
  2. Week 07: Lecture 32: Ultra-Short-Pulse Oscillator Video
  3. Week 07: Lecture 33: Ultra-Short-Pulse Amplification-1 Video
  4. Week 07: Lecture 34: Ultra-Short-Pulse Amplification-2 Video
  5. Week 07: Lecture 35: Stretching and Compressing a Pulse Video

week-08

  1. Week 08: Lecture 36: Stretching and Compressing a Pulse Video
  2. Week 08: Lecture 37: The Auto-Correlation Technique for Temporal Pulse Measurement Video
  3. Week 08: Lecture 38: Frequency Resolved Optical Gating for Temporal Pulse measurement Video
  4. Week 08: Lecture 39: Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) Video
  5. Week 08: Lecture 40: Remote Sensing. Video

week-09

  1. Week 09:Lecture 41: Optical Tweezers. Video
  2. Week 09: Lecture 42: Lasers in Spectroscopy. Video
  3. Week 09: Lecture 43: Dye Laser. Video
  4. Week 09: Lecture 44: Tuning a laser with a grating. Video
  5. Week 09: Lecture 45: Details of a grating. Video

week-10

  1. Week 10: Lecture 46: Multi - Photon Processes. Video
  2. Week 10: Lecture 47: Laser Enrichment Method. Video
  3. Week 10: Lecture 48: Laser Raman Spectroscopy. Video
  4. Week 10: Lecture 49: Polarization Of Electromagnetic Waves. Video
  5. Week 10: Lecture 50: Polarizer &. Analyzer. Video

week-11

  1. Week 11: Lecture 51: Interference of Electromagnetic waves - 1. Video
  2. Week 11: Lecture 52: Interference Of Electromagnetic waves - 2. Video
  3. Week 11: Lecture 53: Interference Patterns - 1 Video
  4. Week 11: Lecture 54: Interference Patterns - 2 Video
  5. Week 11: Lecture 55: Interference Pattern - 3. Video

week-12

  1. Week 12: Lecture 56: Fabry - Perot Cavity Video
  2. Week 12: Lecture 57: Holography 1 Video
  3. Week 12: Lecture 58: Holography - 2 Video
  4. Week 12: Lecture 59: Holography - 3 Video
  5. Week 12: Lecture 60: Holography - 4 Video

Live Session

  1. Live Session 14-02-2025 Video
  2. Live Session 26-03-2025 Video
  3. Live Session 03-04-2025 Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre(BARC)-IIT Bombay
Department
Physics
Teacher
Prof. Paramita Deb
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Physics
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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