M. A. Parker Copyright 2000-2003
Note 1: How to use: click on the desired class, read the introduction, click on the right-pointing arrow to start the class. The audio starts automatically.
Note 2: Many of the computers on campus do not have a sound card. You will need to use headphones with a USB plug. I have found them to be available from VXI .
Note 3: These lectures are prerecorded and do not exactly duplicate the in-class lectures. These online classes often contain more detail.
Classes listed in order
Homework solutions at the bottom
Test review notes at bottom
Class 01 Intro to course, Laser Components
Class 02 Rate Eqs., Recombination, gain
Class 03 Power-Current Curves
Class 04 Cavity Lifetime and Reflectance, Bandwidth
Class 05 Maxwell's Equations, Wave Equation
Class 06 Poynting Vector and Power Transport
Class 07 Power Amplitudes, reflectivity, transmissivity
Class 08 Scattering and Transfer Matrices
Class 09 The Fabry-Perot Laser
Class 10 Dirac notation for Euclidean Vectors, Basis
Class 11 Closure, Dual Space, Adjoint, Coord Rep of Functions
Class 12 Dirac Delta Function and Function Space
Class 13 Continuous Basis Sets and the Matrix Repres. of Lin. Ops.
Class 14 Hermitian Ops, Functions of Operators, Unitary Operators
Class 15 Relation between linear algebra and quantum mechanics
Class 16 Evolution Operators, Ehrenfest's Thm
Class 17 Representations in Quantum Mechanics
Class 18 Harmonic Oscillator: Intro & Series Solution
Class 19 Harm Osc: Algebr Sol, ladder ops, Hamilt
Class 20 Harm Osc: Algebr Sol, basis functs
Class 21 Density Operator: Definition and Concepts
Class 22 Density Operator: Averages
Class 23 () Vector Potential and Gauge Transformations
Class 24 () Plane Wave Expansion of Vector Potential
Class 25 () Operator Vector Potential
Class 26 () The EM Hamiltonian and Fock States
Class 27 () Intro Coherent States and Probability
Class 28 () Displacement Op & Vector Space properties
Class 29 () Introduction to Squeezed States
Class 30 () Coordinate representation of Squeezed States
Class 31 () Wigner Distribution Examples
Class 32 () Wigner Distribution Math
Class 33 () Homodyne detection
Class 34
Class 35 Time Dep Pert Thy: General Transition Probab
Class 36 Time Dep Pert Thy: EM Interaction, Dipole Moment
Class 37 Fermi's Golden Rule
Class 41 Review: Bloch Wavefunction, Effective Mass, Band States
Class 42 Review of Bulk 3D and 2D Density of States
Class 43 Q. Well Density of States
Class 44 Reduced Density of States
Class 45 Semiconductor Gain
Elementary Optics 1: Lenses
Elementary Optics 2: Interference and Diffraction
Vector Analysis: Vector Space, Gradient, Directional Derivative
Vector Analysis: Divergence and Curl