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Photonik I

Summary

The lecture course introduces the five models of light & its interaction with matter:

  1. Ray (geometrical) optics
  2. Wave optics
  3. Electromagnetic optics
  4. Semiclassical theory of light-matter interactions and
  5. Quantum optics

postulates their laws and – with the help of these successively more advanced (I - V) models – addresses the generation, propagation, manipulation, and advanced applications of light. Here you can download the lecture, both as individual chapters and as a complete PDF.

  1. Introduction: the theory of light and and its advanced applications (PDF 74 kB)
  2. Ray optics (PDF 123 kB)
  3. Wave optics
    Introduction (PDF 1,6 MB)
    Paraxial waves, Gaussian beams (PDF 1,3 MB)
  4. Electromagnetic optics
    Microscopic and macroscopic fields, potentials, waves (PDF 975 kB)
    Nonlinear polarization, light modulation and frequency conversion (PDF 261 kB)
    Concepts of optical signal processing and optical communications (PDF 969 kB)
    Theory of optical pulse propagation, dispersive and nonlinear effects, pulse compression, solitons in optical fibers (PDF 669 kB)
  5. Semiclassical theory of light-matter interactions
    Classical and quantum mechanics of the electron in a light field (PDF 211 kB)
    Light-induced atomic transitions (PDF 863 kB)
    Polarization response of matter: quantum theory of the constitutive law (PDF 466 kB)
  6. Quantum optics
    Quantization of the electromagnetic field (PDF 347 kB)
    Quantum states of the electromagnetic field (PDF 348 kB)