ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Applied Physics
Areas: Optics
Center Faculty of Physics
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
- Identifying the most remarkable characteristics of laser radiation.
- Describing the classical and semiclassical model of laser.
- Identifying the intrinsic dynamics of láser
- Knowing the basic techniques for pulse generation and amplification.
- Describing different ways of laser characterization.
- Knowing the application of lasers in different fields.
- Identifying laser damage and security standards
LEARNING RESULTS
To introduce the student with the laser technology and provide the basic structures for the understanding of the physical phenomena in a laser.
- To get the student to dominate in an operative way the models that explain how the laser works.
- To determine different ways of characterizing a laser beam or pulse
- To describe the different types of laser in a satisfactory way and discuss its most relevant applications.
1. Basic principles and modeling.
Radiation-matter interaction. Laser equations. Oscillation threshold and steady state. Laser gain.
2. Semiclassical theory of radiation-matter interaction.
Maxwell's equations. Two-level system. Maxwell-Bloch equations. Stationary regime. Relation with the classical model.
3. Laser dynamics.
Continuous lasers. Pumping modulation. Active and passive Q-switiching
3. Ultra-short pulse lasers.
Optical signals in a cavity, temporal and modal description. Mode-locking. Pulse manipulation.
4 Characterization techniques.
Spatial characterization. Quality factor. Spectral and temporal characterization.
5. Applications.
Lasers and Nobel Prizes
1. Joseph T. Verdeyen. Laser Electronics. Prentice-Hall International Inc. 1995
2. Anthony E. Siegman. Lasers. University Science Books 1986
3. William T. Silfvast. Laser Fundamentals. Cambridge University Press 1996
4. Peter W. Milonni, Joseph. H. Eberly. Lasers. John Wiley & Sons 1988
5. Andrew M. Weiner. Ultrafast Optics. John Wiley & Sons 2009
Network resources:
Links are included in the Virtual Classroom to existing materials on the web, as well as other teaching material to compensate for the loss of access to any of the bibliographic funds of the USC.
GENERAL
CG01 - Acquire the ability to carry out research work as a team.
CG02 - Have the capacity for analysis and synthesis.
CG03 - Acquire the ability to write scientific texts, articles or reports in accordance with publication standards.
CG04 - Become familiar with the different modalities used for the dissemination of results and dissemination of knowledge in scientific meetings.
CG05 - Apply knowledge to solve complex problems.
BASIC
CB6 - Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and / or application of ideas, often in a research context
CB7 - That students know how to apply the acquired knowledge and their ability to solve problems in new or little-known settings within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study
CB8 - That students are able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of formulating judgments based on information that, being incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.
CB9 - That students know how to communicate their conclusions and the latest knowledge and reasons that support them to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous way
CB10 - That students possess the learning skills that allow them to continue studying in a way that will have to be largely self-directed or autonomous.
TRANSVERSAL
CT01 - Ability to interpret texts, documentation, reports and academic articles in English, the scientific language par excellence.
CT02 - Develop the capacity for responsible decision making in complex and / or responsible situations.
SPECIFIC
CE10 - Understand and assimilate both fundamental and more applied aspects of the Physics of light and radiation.
CE11 - Acquire knowledge and mastery of light and radiation transmission strategies and systems.
A course will be activated on the Moodle platform of the Virtual Campus, to which information of interest to the student will be uploaded, as well as diverse teaching material.
The general methodological indications established in the USC Degree Physics Report will be followed. Classes will be face-to-face, and the distribution of interactive and expository hours follows that specified in the Grade Report.
The tutorials may be face-to-face or telematic, if they are telematic they will require an appointment, which is also recommended for face-to-face.
At the first opportunity, a continuous evaluation system based on solving exercises and carrying out proposed activities will be followed, preferably. Exceptionally, a final exam of the subject may be carried out.
In the second opportunity, the student must perform the final exam on the date set by the center.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the one set forth in the Regulations for the evaluation of student academic performance and the review of grades will apply.
It is recommended the one indicated in the Memory of the Title of Master's degree in Physics of the USC, without counting the time allocated to face-to-face or telematic teaching (31h), about 44 hours for a subject of 3 ECTS.
Review of the knowledge already acquired in Optics I and II of the Physics degree. It is interesting to have taken the subject Laser Technology of the same degree or another similar one.
Course language: Galician
Raul De La Fuente Carballo
Coordinador/a- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- Phone
- 881813519
- raul.delafuente [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Yago Arosa Lobato
- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- yago.arosa.lobato [at] usc.es
- Category
- Xunta Post-doctoral Contract
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