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MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Spring 2003 Catalogue Supplement |
L TR 9:30-11, Room 26-204
Professor Franz Kaertner, Room 36-393, 2-3616
Prereq.: 6.631
3-0-9
This subject does not qualify as an Engineering Concentration Subject.
A detailed exposition of the principles involved in ultrashort pulse generation, propagation, and chracterization is treated. Applications in research and industry. Linear and nonlinear pulse shaping processes. Optical solitons, pulse compression. Laser principles: Single- and multimode laserdynamics, Q-switching and Modelocking, Active and passive modelocking mechanisms. Pulse characterisation. Noise in modelocked lasers. Laser amplifiers. EUV-XUV generation. Applications