OPT/IZL Fundamentals of Laser Physics

Lecturer: Radim Filip
Lecture: 2 hours/week + Exercise 1 hour/week
Credits: 6
Summer semester
Form of course completion: course credit, exam

This course gives basic and intermediate understanding of principals of light–matter interaction in lasers and masers using population dynamics, semi-classical and quantum description. It describes in detail amplification and saturation effects, nonlinear dynamics and stability problems, photon statistics, atomic-coherence effects and some quantum optical effects in lasers and masers. Further, it contains basic principles of experimental determination of quantum properties of laser beam.