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Instructors: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Stephan Kuschel
Event type:
Lecture
Org-unit: Dept. 05 – Physics
Displayed in timetable as:
Intens Laserstr
Subject:
Crediting for:
Hours per week:
3
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Course Contents:
- Interaction of radiation with matter
- Laser materials
- Laser beams and resonators
- Short laser pulses
- Modern high-energy laser concepts and architectures and pulse & beam shaping
- Limits to the laser amplification
- Application of nonlinear optics to high-power lasers
- Temporal measurements techniques
- Applications: laser-plasma interactions, high-order harmonics generation (HHG), relativistic laser-plasma interactions
Literature:
The following books can be used to complement the lecture:
W. Koechner: "Solid State Engineering" (Springer Series in Optical Sciences) 5th, rev. a. updated ed. Edition, ISBN-13 : 978-3540650645
D. C. Brown: "High Peak Power Nd:Glass Laser Systems" Springer Series in Optical Sciences, ISBN 978-3-540-38508-0
A. E. Siegman: "Lasers" University Science Books, Mill Valley USA, ISBN: 978-0935702118/eISBN-13: 9781938787447
Preconditions:
The lectures requires basic knowledge in the following topics:
- mathematics: fourier analysis, differential calculus, series expansions
- optics: geometrical and Fourier optics (diffraction, ABCD matrices), electromagnetismus
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