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EECS634: NONLINEAR OPTICS
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Term: Fall, 2009
Course No.: EECS634 (Phys611 APP PHYS611)
Credit Hours:
Instructor: Professor Herbert G. Winful
Prerequisites: A graduate course in optics or electromagnetics
Course Description:
- The variety of nonlinear optical phenomena
- The time-domain nonlinear response function; anharmonic oscillator model
- Volterra series expansion for the nonlinear polarization
- The nonlinear susceptibility; frequency-domain nonlinear polarization
- Second-order nonlinear effects: second harmonic generation, sum frequency generation, difference frequency generation, optical rectification
- Phase matching, quasi-phase matching, periodically poled nonlinear materials
- Parametric amplification and oscillation
- Cascaded second-order nonlinearities
- Third order nonlinear effects: third harmonic generation, four-wave mixing, intensity-dependent refractive index, self-phase modulation, self-focusing, optical bistability, optical phase conjugation, pulse compression, polarization instabilities
- Temporal solitons, spatial solitons
- Nonlinear periodic structures, gap solitons
- Stimulated Raman scattering, stimulated Brillouin scattering
- Nonlinearities in fiber-optic communications
- Photorefractive nonlinear optics
Grading: Homework 30% Midterm Exam 30% Final Exam 40% |
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