Master degree in Physics - Laurea Magistrale in Fisica
I semester 2013
(2/10 to 21/12/2013)
Spettroscopia - codice 60/68/20
6 cfu - 48h
Absorption and Emission of Light- 6h
(Demtroder V1 cap.2)
Absorption, Induced and spontaneous emission
Einstein's coefficients
Absorption and emission spectra
Transition probabilities
Perturbation theory - weak and strong field limits
Coherence
Widths and profiles of spectral lines - 4h
(Demtroeder V1 cap. 3 and Haken-Wolf cap16)
Natural linewidth, lifetime, Kramers-Kronig relations
Doppler and collisional broadening
Homogeneous and inhomogeneous line broadening
Saturation of optical transitions
Spectral line profiles in liquids and solids
Instrumentation - 6h
(Demtroeder V1 cap. 4)
geometric optics background: lenses, polarizers, optical aperture
dispersion and spectrometer
Interferometers
photodetectors
Lasers - 4h
(Demtroeder V1 cap. 5)
Resonators
Population inversion and threshold condition
Gas, dye and solid-state lasers
Linewidth and coherence
mode locking and pulsed lasers
nonlinear optics (also see Haken-Wolf cap 17)
Absorption and Fluorescence Spectroscopy - 4h
(Demtroeder V2 cap.1)
Ultrafast laser spectroscopy- 4h
(Demtroeder V2cap. 6)
Quantum Optics - 8h
Quantization of electromagnetic field
Statistics of light, photon counting and noise;
HBT and correlation; g1 e g2 coherence; antibunching;
Squeezing
Quantum cryptography
Quantum computer, entanglement and teleportation
Cold atoms
Lab experiments - 12h
Photodetector detectivity, noise and lock-in amplifier (Quochi)
Shaping of transform-limited ultrafast optical pulses (Quochi-Saba)
Time-resolved photoluminescence (Corpino, Quochi-Saba)
Efficiency of a solar cell (Mura-Saba)
Raman (Ricci)
Confocal microscope (Mura)