5PMNONL1 : Non linear optics - WPMNDOL9

Informations générales

  • Number of hours

    • Lectures 10.0
    • Projects 0
    • Tutorials 10.0
    • Internship 0
    • Laboratory works 0

    ECTS

    ECTS 2.0

Goal(s)

Contact Benoit BOULANGER, Lionel BASTARD

Content(s)

Introduction and definitions: polarization, electric susceptibility, Maxwell's equations

Particle aspects of: 3- and 4-photon interactions

Electric susceptibility: wavelength dispersion, intrinsic symmetries, symmetries due to orientation symmetry

Tensor calculation of polarization: 1st and 2nd order polarizations

Review of linear crystal optics: propagation equation, index surface, birefringence, double refraction, vector field configuration

Amplitude equations in the nonlinear regime

Manley-Rowe relations

Non-phase matching, phase matching, and quasi-phase matching

Angular, spectral, and thermal acceptance

Spatial walk-off effects

Effective coefficient

Main frequency conversion interactions: second-harmonic generation, third-harmonic generation, parametric fluorescence, parametric amplification, oscillation Parametric

Main Nonlinear Materials: Comparison and Applications



Prerequisites

Test

writing



Additional Information

Course list
Curriculum->Double-Diploma Engineer/Master->Semester 9
Curriculum->Master->Semester 9