Professor Brage Golding --Department of Physics & Astronomy

Schedule and topics

• September 3: Rate equations; saturation; absorption; population inversion; gain
  

• September 5: No class
  
• September 10: No class
  
• September 12: No class
  
• September 17: Class begins at 12:00 noon: Optical cavity; lasing; pumping; losses.  Atom-field interaction; selection rules; time-dependent perturbation theory; golden rule
  
• September 19: Class begins at 12:00 noon:  Optical susceptibilities; homogeneous line broadening; Rabi oscillations; coherent time-evolution; density matrix formalism
  
• September 24: Class begins at 12:00 noon: Dipole oscillations; comparison of classical and quantum oscillators; decay processes; optical Bloch equations; research paper discussion;
  
• September 26: Regular schedule (1:00 pm): Rotating frame; inhomogeneous line broadening; absorption and saturation revisited