ECEN 5606 Advanced Optics Lab
The Advanced Optics Lab is designed to prepare students for optics research at the level of the Ph.D. Theoretical concepts are taken from the optics gradiuate core classes, however it is not necessary that you have taken these theory classes before taking the lab. The class will teach you advanced laboratory skills, safety practices and inform classroom lectures with intense, hands-on practice of relevant and state-of-the-art optics.
Lecture Notes
- Organizational lecture
- Safety and lab practice lecture
- Laser safety rules for use with Ti:Saphire and Argon ion lasers
- Resonator mode matching
- Optical harmonic generation
- Ti:Sapphire lasers
- Interferometers
- Fourier optics
- Crystal optics
- Laser diodes
- Combined spectroscopy and cooling lecture
- Linear spectroscopy
- Photorefractive crystals
- Acoustooptic devices