Podcast
Physics 208
Hosted by Peter Beyersdorf · EN
Class material from Physics 208 "Electrooptics" at San Jose State for Spring 2009. This podcast will mostly contain recorded lectures in m4a format.
10episodes
Episodes
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Photonic Circuits
May 7, 200901:05:56Tap to summarizeWe look at how the various pieces of optics we have studied throughout the course are integrated in to devices.
Transcribe →Ultrafast optics
May 5, 200901:17:26Tap to summarizeWe look at generation, propagation and detection of ultrafast laser pulses
Transcribe →4 wave mixing
Apr 30, 200901:18:41Tap to summarizeWe look at the third order nonlinear effect and uses for Kerr lenses.
Transcribe →Nonlinear Wave Equation
Apr 23, 200901:13:44Tap to summarizeWe use coupled mode analysis to investigate the field amplitudes in three wave mixing, and look at the effect of phase mismatch on the conversion efficiency of nonlinear processes.
Transcribe →Phase Matching of SHG
Apr 21, 200901:09:35Tap to summarizeWe look at the phase matching condition for Second Harmonic Generation and also do a tuning curve example for an OPO
Transcribe →Nonlinear optics 1
Apr 16, 200901:13:05Tap to summarizeWe introduce non-linear optics and discuss various forms of 3 wave mixing including frequency converters, optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs), optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) and second harmonic generation (SHG)
Transcribe →2D Waveguides
Apr 14, 200901:14:30Tap to summarizeWe generalize the expressions for 1D waveguide to 2 dimensions and focus on the calculation of power coupled into a waveguide from a Gaussian beam.
Transcribe →1D waveguides
Apr 7, 200901:12:46Tap to summarizeWe look at both the ray picture and field picture of modes in a 1D waveguide.
Transcribe →Photonic Crystals
Apr 2, 200901:12:05Tap to summarizeWe look at the unusual properties of 2d and 3d photonic crystals
Transcribe →Propagation in periodic media
Mar 31, 200901:05:59Tap to summarizeWe look at Bloch Wave solutions to propagation in a periodic material using Fourier analysis of the material permittivity.
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