Interaction of radiation and atomic system. Propagation in anisotropic and/or dispersive media. Propagation of resonant and non resonant field, coherent interaction. Laser equation. Continuous and pulsed behaviour. Non linear polarizations: second and third order effects. Frequency sum generation. Kerr optical effects. Stimulated Raman. Acustic- and electro-optic effects. Measures of temporal and spectral characteristics of optical pulses. High order harmonic generation.
Y.R. Shen, “Non linear Optics” Wiley Interscience
A. Yariv, “Quantum Electronics” John Wiley & Sons
O. Svelto, “Principles of Lasers” Springer 1998
Learning Objectives
Knowledge and use of:
Interaction of radiation and atomic system. Use of theoretical competence for the treatment of the dynamic of medium in presence of E.M. field in infrared-visible and UV. Propagation and generation of e.m. field by means of laser sources and non linear processes. Experimental and practical limits of the studied methodology.
Capability of the use of the acquired competence for the study of different argument of matter structure and optics (linear and non linear). Possibility of extension of the acquired competence.
Prerequisites
Courses required: none
Courses recommended: fundamental of the Matter Structure curriculum
Teaching Methods
CFU: 6.
Lectures (hours): 50
Further information
Office hours: Once a week during the course and by appointment during all along the year
Website: Communications and didattic material on the E-learning Unifi
Type of Assessment
Oral examination
Course program
Interaction of radiation and atomic system. Propagation in anisotropic and/or dispersive media. Electric-optical and acusto-optic effects. Density matrix formalism: introduction and use. Propagation of resonant field, coherent interaction. Laser equation. Continuous and pulsed behaviour. Non linear polarizations: second and third order effects. Frequency sum and difference generation. Theory and techniques. Kerr optical effects. Stimulated Raman scattering Acustic- and electro-optic effects. Measures of temporal and spectral characteristics of optical pulses. High order harmonic generation.