FYSS5404 Photonics (7 cr)

• Ray-Optics

• Wave-optics

• Electromagnetic optics

• Polarization optics

• Photonic crystals

• Waveguides

• Optical fibers

• Cavities

• Surface Plasmons

• Atoms interacting with a classical electromagnetic field

• Principles of lasers

• Quantization of electromagnetic field

• Interaction of an atom with the quantized electromagnetic field, Jaynes-Cummings model

After completion, students can:

• model optical problems with different tools and models

• explain the basic principles of light guiding and confinement

• apply the theories of light-matter interaction

• explain the principles of lasers

• quantize the free electromagnetic field

• model the light-atom interaction with quantized field (Jaynes-Cummings –model) 

The course is aimed for both experimentally oriented students, who also want to know the theoretical principles, as well as for theoretically oriented people, who want to learn also how to model practical problems.

• FYSP1050 Basics of electromagnetism

• especially Maxwell’s equations and optics

• FYSA2003 Modern physics, part A

• FYSA2030 and FYSA2032 Quantum mechanics, parts A&B or KEMS401 Quantum chemistry 

Lecture slides and the books below