Catalog Description
Photonics and Lasers
Review of electromagnetism; electromagnetic nature of light, radiation,
geometrical optics, Gaussian beams, transformation of Gaussian beams;
electromagnetic modes of an optical resonator, interaction of light with
matter, classical theory of absorption and dispersion, broadening processes,
Rayleigh scattering, quantum theory of spontaneous and stimulated emission,
optical amplification, theory of laser oscillation, examples of laser
systems, Q switching and mode locking of lasers.
