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SLO / ELNO
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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SLO
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ELNO
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Title
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Experimental Laser and Nonlinear Optics
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Form of course completion
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Colloquium
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Form of course completion
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Colloquium
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
3
Cred.
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Type of completion
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-
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Type of completion
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-
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Time requirements
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Přednáška
2
[Hours/Week]
Exercise
1
[Hours/Week]
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Included in study average
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NO
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Language of instruction
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Czech, English
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Summer semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Included in study average
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NO
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Winter semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Winter semester
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Semester taught
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Winter semester
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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Czech, English
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
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Evaluation scale |
S|N |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Fundamental course |
No
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Evaluation scale |
S|N |
Substituted course
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None
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Preclusive courses
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SLO/EXLNO
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
Graphic PNG
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XLS
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Course objectives:
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The subject presents experimental methods and laboratory devices for laser and nonlinear optics.
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Requirements on student
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Passing the oral examination
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Content
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- Laser - principle of operation, regimes of generation, possibilities of pumping, the most used types of active media, nonlinear optics - phenomena of the second and the third order - Laser in continuous regime, modes and their relationship with the resonator, homogenous and inhomogeneous expansion, hole-burning, stability of the laser, multi-line, single-line and single-frequency operation of the laser, two-, three- and four-leveled model of the laser, description by means of speed equations, typical lasers - Laser in the regime of Q-switching, active and passive Q-switching, cavity dumping, laboratory demonstration, laser in the regime of synchronization of modes, active and passive modelocking, advanced methods of synchronization of modes, generation of ultrashort pulses, influence of dispersion on propagation of ultrashort pulses, Ti/sapphire amplifier, generation of white continuum - Nonlinear optics, susceptibility of the second and the third order, nonlinear optical crystals, phase synchronization, calculations of the orientation of the crystal for the interaction of type I and type II, optical and mechanical properties, generation of the second harmonics, extracavity and intracavity double lasers, compact systems (double DPSS lasers), optical parametric amplifier, laboratory demonstrations, measurement of ultrashort pulses, autocorrelation techniques, full characterization of the pulses, compression of ultrashort impulses - Generation of correlated photon pairs of type I and type II, properties of correlated pairs, SPCM and iCCD cameras, coincidence detection, statistics of number of photons, Hong-Ou-Mendel interferometer
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Guarantors:
prof. RNDr. Ondřej Haderka, Ph.D. (100%),
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Lecturer:
prof. RNDr. Ondřej Haderka, Ph.D. (100%),
Mgr. Radek Machulka, Ph.D. (100%),
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Tutorial lecturer:
prof. RNDr. Ondřej Haderka, Ph.D. (100%),
Mgr. Radek Machulka, Ph.D. (100%),
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Literature
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Basic:
Siegman, A. E. Lasers. University Science Books, 1986.
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Basic:
Boyd, R. W. Nonlinear Optics. Academic Press; 2nd edition, 2002.
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Recommended:
Dmitriev, V. G., Gurzadyan, G. G., Nikogosyan, D. N. Handbook of Nonlinear Optical Crystal. Springer, 1999.
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Recommended:
Koechner, W. Solid state laser engineering. Springer, 1999.
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Recommended:
Shen, Y. R. The Principles of Nonlinear Optics. Wiley-Interscience, 2002.
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Recommended:
Saleh, B.E.A., Teich, M.C. Základy fotoniky, sv. 3. Matfyzpress, Praha, 1994.
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On-line library catalogues
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Time requirements
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All forms of study
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Activities
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Time requirements for activity [h]
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Homework for Teaching
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20
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Attendace
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39
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Preparation for the Course Credit
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31
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Total
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90
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
Prior knowledge of the undergraduate physics. |
Competences acquired |
Comprehension Interpret Maxwell equations and Schrodinger equation in the context of laser and nonlinear optics, explain operation modes of laser, describe how to achieve the change in frequency of light by nonlinear optical processes, explain how to generate and analyze ultrashort light impulses. |
Teaching methods |
- Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training)
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Assessment methods |
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