Photonic Circuits
We look at how the various pieces of optics we have studied throughout the course are integrated in to devices.
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Physics 208
Class material from Physics 208 "Electrooptics" at San Jose State for Spring 2009. This podcast will mostly contain recorded lectures in m4a format.
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Listen to Physics 208, a Education podcast by Peter Beyersdorf. Stream 20 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 episodesUltrafast optics
We look at generation, propagation and detection of ultrafast laser pulses
4 wave mixing
We look at the third order nonlinear effect and uses for Kerr lenses.
Nonlinear Wave Equation
We use coupled mode analysis to investigate the field amplitudes in three wave mixing, and look at the effect of phase mismatch on the conve...
Phase Matching of SHG
We look at the phase matching condition for Second Harmonic Generation and also do a tuning curve example for an OPO
Nonlinear optics 1
We introduce non-linear optics and discuss various forms of 3 wave mixing including frequency converters, optical parametric amplifiers (OPA...
2D Waveguides
We generalize the expressions for 1D waveguide to 2 dimensions and focus on the calculation of power coupled into a waveguide from a Gaussia...
1D waveguides
We look at both the ray picture and field picture of modes in a 1D waveguide.
Photonic Crystals
We look at the unusual properties of 2d and 3d photonic crystals
Propagation in periodic media
We look at Bloch Wave solutions to propagation in a periodic material using Fourier analysis of the material permittivity.
Electrooptics
We introduce the electrooptic tensor and do examples using the linear electrooptic effect.
Acoustooptic devices
We look at figures of merit for acoustooptic materials and limitation on modulation bandwidth in acoustooptic modulators.
Acoustooptics
We look at the Bragg condition in anisotropic materials and solve for the diffracted beam amplitude using coupled mode theory.
Jones Calculus and Liquid Crystals
We introduce Jones calculus to keep track of polarization direction and use it to describe a number of examples including polarization rotat...
Faraday Rotators in LIGO
We look at how aspects of this class relate to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) and investigate the design of...
Optical Activity
We provide a physical description for the origin of optical activity and faraday rotation in a material and useeigenmodes as well as coupled...
Index Ellipsoid
We introduce the index ellipsoid and show how it can be used to find the indices of refraction for light propagating in a crystal in an arbi...
Propagation in Anisotropic Materials
We look at solutions to the wave equation in anisotropic materials and the "normal shells" that describe of those solutions.
Maxwell's Equations in Matter
We consider Maxwell's equations in matter and use them to find the boundary conditions at an interface, and the wave equation in anisotropic...
Waves in Isotropic Materials
We derive the wave equation in isotropic materials from Maxwell's laws and we introduce phasor notation as a method for simplifying calculat...
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