Photonik I
Summary
The lecture course introduces the five models of light & its interaction with matter:
- Ray (geometrical) optics
- Wave optics
- Electromagnetic optics
- Semiclassical theory of light-matter interactions and
- 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.
Table of contents (105 kB)
- Introduction: the theory of light and and its advanced applications ( 74 kB)
- Ray optics ( 123 kB)
- Wave optics
Introduction ( 1,6 MB)
Paraxial waves, Gaussian beams ( 1,3 MB) - Electromagnetic optics
Microscopic and macroscopic fields, potentials, waves ( 975 kB)
Nonlinear polarization, light modulation and frequency conversion ( 261 kB)
Concepts of optical signal processing and optical communications ( 969 kB)
Theory of optical pulse propagation, dispersive and nonlinear effects, pulse compression, solitons in optical fibers ( 669 kB) - Semiclassical theory of light-matter interactions
Classical and quantum mechanics of the electron in a light field ( 211 kB)
Light-induced atomic transitions ( 863 kB)
Polarization response of matter: quantum theory of the constitutive law ( 466 kB) - Quantum optics
Quantization of the electromagnetic field ( 347 kB)
Quantum states of the electromagnetic field ( 348 kB)
complete PDF Photonics I (10 MB)