Physics Laser Optics Need a good physics lab project?
The class this project is for is an optics/holography class. I need to use stuff such as interferometers, lenses, lasers, etc. I am supposed do stuff like measuring indices of refractions, properties of light, holograms, diffraction, etc. Please I need an idea, but I have always been more of a practical person and testing theory has never been my thing.
I have to give a presentation on it so I don't want anything too abstract that I can't explain to people who are not physicist. I would really like it if there was something apparent that I can measure or something that won't get me stuck boring trying to find it.
Those are all good ideas you have--what interests you in particular--refraction, diffraction, dispersion (making rainbows), interferometry?
This graduatelevel text presents the fundamental physics of solidstate lasers, including the basis of laser action and the optical and electronic properties of laser materials. After an overview of the topic, the first part begins with a review of quantum mechanics and solidstate physics, spectroscopy, and crystal field theory; it then treats the quantum theory of radiation, the emission and absorption of radiation, and nonlinear optics; concluding with discussions of lattice vibrations and ionion interactions, and their effects on optical properties and laser action. The second part treats specific solidstate laser materials, the prototypical ruby and NdYAG systems being treated in greatest detail; and the book concludes with a discussion of novel and nonstandard materials. Some knowledge of quantum mechanics and solidstate physics is assumed, but the discussion is as selfcontained as possible, making this an excellent reference, as well as useful for independent study. Author: Powell, Richard C. Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 437 Publication Date: 1998/03/27 Language: English Dimensions: 9.53 x 6.40 x 0.99 inches
Principles of Laser Spectroscopy and Quantum Optics is an essential textbook for graduate students studying the interaction of optical fields with atoms. It also serves as an ideal reference text for researchers working in the fields of laser spectroscopy and quantum optics.The book provides a rigorous introduction to the prototypical problems of radiation fields interacting with two- and three-level atomic systems. It examines the interaction of radiation with both atomic vapors and condensed matter systems, the density matrix and the Bloch vector, and applications involving linear absorption and saturation spectroscopy. Other topics include hole burning, dark states, slow light, and coherent transient spectroscopy, as well as atom optics and atom interferometry. In the second half of the text, the authors consider applications in which the radiation field is quantized. Topics include spontaneous decay, optical pumping, sub-Doppler laser cooling, the Heisenberg equations of motion for atomic and field operators, and light scattering by atoms in both weak and strong external fields. The concluding chapter offers methods for creating entangled and spin-squeezed states of matter.Instructors can create a one-semester course based on this book by combining the introductory chapters with a selection of the more advanced material. A solutions manual is available to teachers.Rigorous introduction to the interaction of optical fields with atomsApplications include linear and nonlinear spectroscopy, dark states, and slow lightExtensive chapter on atom optics and atom interferometryConclusion explores entangled and spin-squeezed states of matterSolutions manual (available only to teachers)Paul R. Berman is professor of physics at the University of Michigan. Vladimir S. Malinovsky is a visiting professor in the Physics Department at Stevens Institute of Technology.
The easy way to shed light on Optics In general terms, optics is the science of light. More specifically, optics is a branch of physics that describes the behavior and properties of light?including visible, infrared, and ultraviolet?and the interaction of light with matter. Optics For Dummies gives you an approachable introduction to optical science, methods, and applications. You`ll get plain-English explanations of the nature of light and optical effects; reflection, refraction, and diffraction; color dispersion; optical devices, industrial, medical, and military applications; as well as laser light fundamentals. Tracks a typical undergraduate optics course Detailed explanations of concepts and summaries of equations Valuable tips for study from college professors If you`re taking an optics course for your major in physics or engineering, let Optics For Dummies shed light on the subject and help you succeed!
Optics is the branch of physics which studies the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behavior of visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light. Because light is an electromagnetic wave, other forms of electromagnetic radiation such as Xrays, microwaves, and radio waves exhibit similar properties. Most optical phenomena can be accounted for using the classical electromagnetic description of light. Complete electromagnetic descriptions of light are, however, often difficult to apply in practice. Practical optics is usually done using simplified models. The most common of these, geometric optics, treats light as a collection of rays that travel in straight lines and bend when they pass through or reflect from surfaces. Physical optics is a more comprehensive model of light, which includes wave effects such as diffraction and interference that cannot be accounted for in geometric optics. Historically, the raybased model of light was developed first, followed by the wave model of light. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 2010/07/27 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.57 inches
The millimetrewavelength region of the electromagnetic spectrum is increasingly exploited for a wide range of commercial, industrial, and military applications. Conventionally, this region is considered as lying above microwaves and below the infrared. Hence, in practice, millimetrewave scientists have tended to pick and mix useful techniques on an empirical basis from both these areas. MillimetreWave Optics, Devices and Systems describes the fundamental physics of the quasioptical techniques, devices, and system design for instruments processing millimetrewave signals. Relevant ideas from Gaussian beam mode theory and antenna and transmission line theory are brought together to show the underlying unity of optics and electronics. Aimed at advanced undergraduates and postgraduates as well as millimetrewave, laser optics, antenna, and microwave engineers, this book will also be of interest to manufacturers of millimetrewave and microwave equipment. Author: Lesurf, J. C. G. Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 266 Publication Date: 1990/01/01 Language: English Dimensions: 9.40 x 6.10 x 0.74 inches
This book treats the interaction of radiation with matter, particular attention being paid to the laser. Knowledge is assumed of the usual halfyear introduction of quantum mechanics found in undergraduate physics curricula. The material can be covered in two semesters, or, alternatively, the first part (Chaps 113) can be used as a onesemester course in which quantum mechanical aspects of the electromagnetic field are ignored. Each chapter is accompanied by problems that illustrate the text and give useful (occasionally new) results. Existing laser media are intrinsically quantum mechanical and are most easily studied with the quantum theory. Understanding the laser along these lines enlivens ones understanding of quantum mechanics itself. In fact, the material constitutes a viable, applied alternative for the usual second and third semesters of quantum mechanics. Author: Sargent, Murry III/ Sargent, Murray/ Scully, Marian O. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Publication Date: 1974/01/01 Language: English Dimensions: 8.69 x 5.98 x 0.95 inches
The behavior of ultrashort electromagnetic pulses as they travel in dispersive media is impossible to analyze and model by the usual Fourier methods, which break down in such situations. Shvartsburg, one of the worlds top experts, assembles here for the first time alternative mathematical methods and tools to accomplish these tasks, making this an important resource for researchers and practitioners in applied mathematics, laser physics, fiber optics, and telecommunications, among other fields. Author: Shvartsburg, A. B. Series Title: Oxford Series in Optical Imaging Sciences Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 208 Publication Date: 1996/07/25 Language: English Dimensions: 9.53 x 6.37 x 0.66 inches
Singularities in Fluids, Plasmas and Optics, which contains the proceedings of a NATO Workshop held in Heraklion, Greece, in July 1992, provides a survey of the state of the art in the analysis and computation of singularities in physical problems drawn from fluid mechanics, plasma physics and nonlinear optics. The singularities include curvature singularities on fluid interfaces, the onset of turbulence in 3D inviscid flows, focusing singularities for laser beams, and magnetic reconnection. The highlights of the book include the nonlinear Schr dinger equation for describing laser beam focusing, the method of complex variables for the analysis and computation of singularities on fluid interfaces, and studies of singularities for the 3D Euler equations. The book is suitable for graduate students and researchers in these areas. Author: Caflisch, Russel E./ Papanicolaou, George C./ Caflisch, R. E. Series Title: NATO Asi Series. Series C, Mathematical and Physical Science Series Number: 403 Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 364 Publication Date: 1993/06/30 Language: English Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.88 inches
The scientific and technological importance of lasers has generated great interest in the field of cavity nonlinear optics. This book provides a thorough description of this subject in terms of modern dynamical systems theory, with an emphasis on deriving analytical results and highlighting their physical significance. The book applies physical models for active and passive cavities to a variety of problems in laser theory, optical bistability and parametric oscillators. Subjects include scaling laws, Hopf bifurcations, passive Qswitching, and Turing instabilities. Several of the topics treated cannot be found in other books, including swept control parameter dynamics, laser stability, multimode rate equations, and antiphase dynamics. The book stresses the connections between theoretical work and actual experimental results, and will be of great interest to graduate students and researchers in theoretical physics, nonlinear optics, and laser physics. Author: Mandel, Paul/ Knight, P. L./ Miller, A. Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Modern Optics Series Number: 21 Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 204 Publication Date: 2005/10/20 Language: English Dimensions: 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.47 inches
This book deals with the contemporary development of quantum theory from the point of view of quantum optics. The fundamentals of quantum theory are presented, with particular attention being given to the quantum theory of measurement. General coherent states are adopted as the most important theoretical tool for the description of the interaction of optical fields with matter. Quantum theory predicts various nonclassical phenomena, such as squeezing of vacuum fluctuations, photon antibunching, subPoisson photon statistics, collapses and revivals of atomic motion, etc. These quantum effects can be observed, together with violation of various classical and Bells inequalities, using photon interference and correlation techniques. This is demonstrated by experiments involving singlephoton and twophoton interferences, squeezed and subPoisson light and twin photons produced by frequency down conversion. All these results are in agreement with quantum theory and they confirm the waveparticle duality of a photon and the nonlocal features of quantum theory. For research workers in quantum mechanics, quantum theory, quantum optics and electronics, optical communications, optoelectronics, photonics and nonlinear optics, optical processing and computing. Author: Perina, Jan/ Hradil, Z./ Jurco, B. Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Hardcover) Series Number: 63 Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 352 Publication Date: 1994/07/31 Language: English Dimensions: 6.14 x 9.21 x 0.81 inches
With a new chapter on quantum entanglement and quantum information, as well as added discussions of the quantum beam splitter, electromagnetically induced transparency, slow light and the inputoutput formalism, this fourth edition of the brilliant work on quantum optics has been much updated. It still gives a selfcontained and broad coverage of the basic elements necessary to understand and carry out research in laser physics and quantum optics, including a review of basic quantum mechanics and pedagogical introductions to systemreservoir interactions and to second quantization. The text reveals the close connection between many seemingly unrelated topics, such as probe absorption, fourwave mixing, optical instabilities, resonance fluorescence and squeezing. Author: Meystre, Pierre/ Sargent, Murray Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 508 Publication Date: 2010/11/10 Language: English Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 1.05 inches
This book presents the first comprehensive collection of solved problems in laser physics covering both fundamental and applied aspects of laser science and technology. The framework of the book, including structuring of topics and notations, closely follows that adopted in the Principles of Laser book by Professor O. Svelto. The collection of problems presented in this book appears therefore a natural complement to Sveltos textbook for testing and developing the skills acquired in the reading of the theory; however, it may also be a useful support to any general textbook on laser physics, wherein problems are usually not solved in detail. We remark that this is, to our knowledge, the first book to provide a complete and satisfactory set of solved problems in such a highly developing field of science and technology. The problems fall mainly into three distinct categories: (i) numerical/applied problems, which help the reader to become confident and familiar with the basic concepts and methods of laser physics, and to acquire a feeling for numerical parameters entering in realworld laser systems; (ii) complementary problems, that present in detail demonstrations of some analytical parts not given in the textbook; and (iii) advanced problems, aimed either to provide a deeper understanding of the subject or to cover more recent developments in the field. Audience: This book is primarily intended for undergraduate and graduate students in physics, engineering, and chemistry. However, it may also be a useful tool for industrial professionals working in the field of laser technologies and laser applications, as well as for researchers interested in basic aspects of realworld lasers and related fields. Author: Cerullo, Giulio/ Nisoli, Mauro/ Longhi, Stefano Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 308 Publication Date: 2001/10/31 Language: English Dimensions: 9.24 x 7.16 x 0.85 inches
In Laser Physics the interaction of radiation and matter, and the principles of laser operation are treated at a level suitable for fourth-year undergraduate courses or introductory graduate courses in physics, chemistry or engineering. The factors which determine efficiency, wavelength coverage, output power, and beam quality of the different classes of laser are treated both in terms of fundamental theory and practical construction aspects. Details of established types of solid-state, semiconductor, and gas lasers are examined together with the techniques that enable their output to be converted widely across the spectrum. The latest advances in high power fibre lasers, femtosecond lasers, and X-ray lasers are explained. The text is liberally illustrated with more than 300 diagrams. An extensive bibliography is provided, together with numerical problems in each chapter. Solutions are available via the web.
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