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Lern- und Qualifikationsziele
Understanding of nonlinear spectral conversion mechanisms
Phase-matching considerations
Description of nonlinear optical propagation in dielectric materials
Optical parametric amplification
Solitons as a solution of the propagation equation
Nonlinear fiber optics and supercontinuum generation
Description of high-harmonic generation with three-step model
Elementary understanding of multi-photon absorption with Keldysh model
Voraussetzungen
Bachelor in Physik, Grundkenntnisse in Optik und Quantenmechanik
Gliederung / Themen / Inhalte
1. Review of linear optics and Lorentz oscillator model
2. Crystal optics and birefringence
3. Coupled nonlinear wave equations
4. Second-order nonlinearities, second-harmonic generation, sum and difference frequency generation, parametric amplification
5. Birefringent and Quasi-phase matching
6. Degenerate third-order nonlinearities, self-phase modulation, self-focusing, two-photon absorption
7. Cross-phase modulation, degenerate and non-degenerate four-wave mixing
8. Nonlinear fiber optics, nonlinear Schrödinger equation, solitons, supercontinuum generation
9. Extreme nonlinear optics, Keldysh theory, filamentation, high-harmonic generation, attosecond pulse generation
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