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    Modern Optics

    PHY485F/1485F
    www.physics.utoronto.ca/~phy485/ModOpt/

    Robin Marjoribanks
    McLennan Physics 1104C
    [email protected]
    What makes this course
    important?
     foundation course in modern (quantum) optics
     basic literacy in a modern, active area of physics
     fundamental science, concepts, understanding
     a subject of technology that supports many others
     an extremely active, intense area of current
    research
     numerous Nobel prizes in the last decade
    Topics
     laser as a pivot-point
     look backwards from invention to classical optics
    needed to understand how the laser tailors light,
     forward to the quantum optics explosion that has
    followed
     basic optics
     diffraction theory
     gaussian beams
     laser resonators
     semiclassical laser theory
     ultrafast pulse generation
     a selection of currently active research topics:
     laser cooling, photonic bandgap structures, extreme optics,
    quantum information and other topics
    The Laser Oscillator
    Laser oscillators are built in a Fabry-Perot resonator

    W. Silvfast
    http://cord.org/step_online/st1-5/st15ttl.htm
     solutions are standing waves in this laser cavity
     spectrum of possible frequencies satisfy:
    n = n 2π c / L L is the cavity length
    = n o c is speed of light
     these modes may each have their own amplitude En
    thus the optical field in the cavity can be written:

    En ei(not+n
    In a free cavity, with random (n), we get ‘wild’ light. In a cavity where
    we make (n)=0, we lock the modes together
    Ultrafast Ti:sapphire laser
     Kerr effect makes intense pulses ‘self-focus’ slightly
     intense pulses pass better through aperture, where weak ones blocked
     alters stability of cavity slightly, favoring intense pulses
     also can affect deflection of beam, to same effect
     modelocking can start from mechanical vibration: ‘magic modelocking’
    Er-fiber laser
    (Modern Physics Lab PHY326/426)
    output:
    pump input coupler Er-doped fiber
    1550 nm (WDM 980/ 1550nm ) (5m length)
    100 fs
    2–40 mW optical pump pigtail fiber- pigtail fiber-
    (980nm diode laser) optic leads optic leads

    pump:
    980 nm diode pigtail fiber-
    polarization
    controller
    60 mW min optic leads

    fiber coupled
    pigtail fiber- pigtail fiber-
    modelocking: Faraday
    isolator/polarizer
    polarization
    controller
    optic leads optic leads

    Kerr ellipse-
    rotation output coupler

    polarizer Controller for thermo-


    electric cooler on pump
    partial recompression
    discrimination MetroCor fiber length
    electrical feedthroughs

    dispersion
    2 kinds of fiber fiber optic feedthroughs

    opposite GVD
    Course Approach
    multiple resources:
    textbook
    lectures
    online materials: demos, applications
    office hours
    other texts
    study/work groups
    all are needed
    each has particular advantages
    Lectures
    will concentrate on what lectures do best
    won’t just lead you through the textbook
    will provide interaction and feedback
    that books cannot
    will provide demonstrations and
    animations
    will depend on you having read/prepared
    also
    Textbook
     “Optics” (4th edition), Hecht
     we’ll use this for its wonderful illustrations
    and applications, but it is organized by
    device rather than by principle — we’ll use it
    for its modules, as we proceed more logically
    (see guide to topics on website)
     optional (cheap): “Introduction to Modern
    Optics” by Grant R. Fowles (get online
    errata correcting a number of errors)
     reference: “Lasers” by P.W. Milonni and
    J.H. Eberly (Wiley). 
    Office Hours
    Professor Marjoribanks
    Wednesdays 2–3 pm (OK?)
    MP1104C
    markers to be determined
    Contact
    I’ll initiate email using only your official
    registered U of T email address (e.g.,
    [email protected])
    problem set changes, class
    announcements, reminders may go there
    you’re responsible for email
    Problem sets
     Problem set due dates (posted on web)
     PS#1 - due 2 October
     PS#2 - due 21 October
     Midterm Test: 28 October 2008, 5-7 pm OK?
     PS#3 - due 13 November
     PS#4 - due 4 December (zero extensions)
     Group seminar presentations 22 November 10-5pm
     solutions posted on course web-site
     late policy: 20% off per day
     zero, once solutions are posted (~3 days)
    getting Midterm back
     the TAs each mark part of the midterm
     I am at a conference the third week of November

     if the TAs don’t both get their marking done


    in one week, you won’t get the midterm back
    before the start of December
    Marking scheme
    Term work:
    4 problem sets (best 3 out of 4) 30%
    seminar group presentation (22 Nov) 10%
    term test 60%
    100%
    Final exam
    final exam 100%

    Course mark: 60/40 flip-flop


    Midterm test – only impossibles
    27 Monday 28 Tues 29 Wed 30 Thurs 31 Friday
    9-10 xxxxx xxxxx
    10-11 xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
    11-12 xxxxx
    12-1pm
    1-2
    2-3
    3-4 2 xxxxx xxxxx 2
    4-5 2 2 Colloq √
    5-6 √ 8 2 √
    6-7 3 8 3
    7-8
    8-9

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