Course description
The course introduces physical foundations for lasers, including light-matter interaction phenomena, propagation of laser beams, laser resonators, rate equations for lasers, transient laser phenomena, principles and characteristics of cw and pulsed lasers, and some topical laser applications as a case study.
The course is based on the book Laser Physics by Simon Hooker and Colin Webb (Oxford University press, 2010) and contains lectures, exercise sessions and exam.