Topic outline

  • 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 axam. The timetable can be found below.