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Introduction to Quantum Electronics and Nonlinear Optics:
Phenomena, Devices and Applications
Instructor: Assistant Professor Dmitry Budker
Office: 219 Birge Hall
Labs: B217, 217, 221, 230 Birge,
(510) 643-1829 e-mail: budker@Berkeley.edu
Web page
Office hour: M 11-12, 219 Birge
What's new:
Your Final Presentations:
Abstracts Schedule
Miscellaneous Lecture Notes:
Stimulated Brillouin Scattering: sbs.pdf
References Promised in Lecture:
Demonstration of optical phenomena using pendulum
Most of the pendulum demonstrations presented in this class, including light polarization evolution in a birefringent medium adiabatic vs. nonadiabatic processes, etc. polarization ellipse self-rotation were developed by Prof. Boris Ya. Zel'dovich, CREOL School of Optics, University of Central Florida, and some of them are described in:
M. J. Soileau, B. Ya. Zel'dovich. "Bi-frequency Pendulum on a Rotary
Platform as a Tool to Teach Optical Birefringence and Liquid Crystalline
Displays", International Conference on Education in Optics (July 9-10,
1995, San Diego, CA, USA), SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 2525.
The Self-Induced Transparency demonstartion with a pinball multi-pendulum machine was invented by Erwin Hahn and is mentioned briefly e.g. in
M. Sargent III, M. O. Scully, and W. E. Lamb, Jr., Laser Physics. Addison Wesley, 1974.
Second Quantization
C. Cohen-Tannoudji, J. Dupont-Roc, G. Grynberg, Photons and atoms : introduction to quantum electrodynamics /, . New York : Wiley, c1989. xviii, 468 p.UCB Physics QC680 .C6413 1989
Squeezed States
Be sure to check the original literature list.
Intensity Interferometer
Brown, R. Hanbury. The intensity interferometer; its application to astronomy, Taylor & Francis; New York, Halsted Press, 1974. xvi, 184 p. UCB Physics QB86 .B731 1974.
Course Description, Texts, Presentation Topics
HW Sets and Solutions
What's old:
References promised in lecture:
Tutorial on Quasi Phase Matching (QPM) in Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate (PPLN) http://www.gemfirecorp.com/pplntutorial.htm
T. C. Marshall, Free Electron Lasers, Physics library call # TA 1677 M37 1985.
A reference for fiber optics in general, and nonlinear pulse propagation and solitons is:
An introduction to fiber optics /, Ajoy Ghatak and K. Thyagarajan. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
UCB Engin TA1800.G48 1998.
Another reference for a brief intro to solitons, chaos in n/l optics, etc. is:
Nonlinear optics : basic concepts /, D.L. Mills. 2nd, enl. ed. New York : Springer, 1998. UCB Physics QC446.2 .M55 1998.
EIT
S. E. Harris, " Electromagnetically induced transparency", Phys. Today 50(7), 36 (1997).
Kasapi, A. Three-dimensional vector model for a three-state system. Journal of the Optical Society of America B (Optical Physics), 13, 7, (1996) pp.1347-1351.
Refs on the recent slow pulse propagation experiment:
D. Budker, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, and V. V. Yashchuk, Nonlinear magneto-optics and reduced group velocity of light in atomic vapor with slow ground state relaxation (Preprint)
NATURE | VOL 397 | 18 FEBRUARY 1999 | www.nature.com
Prof. Hau's group home page: http://www.rowland.org/groups/atomcool/atomc.html
Feynman Diagram Technique for calculation of susceptibilities:
N.B. Delone and V.P. Krainov. Atoms in strong light fields
Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1985.
UCB Physics QC793.5.P42 D4413 1985
Stimulated Raman Scattering:
Miscellaneous Lecture Notes:
First 2nd Harmonic Demonstration
Stimulated Raman Scattering as a source of Tunable Coherent IR Light
Errata for LASERS by Siegman, (or visit his web page)
Self-induced transparency
X(3)optical rotation (Maker and Terhune)