NOC:Fundamentals of Attosecond Science and Technology (FAST)

Lecture 1 - Introduction to waves, 1D wave equation and its solutions

Lecture 2 - 1D Light waves

Lecture 3 - Characteristics of light waves - amplitude, absolute phase, wavelenght and frequency

Lecture 4 - Phase, Phase velocity and Phase delay

Lecture 5 - Complex notation for the description light waves and superposition

Lecture 6 - Maxwell's equations to the 3D wave equation and its solutions

Lecture 7 - Recap of Week 1

Lecture 8 - 3D wave equation and plane waves

Lecture 9 - Complex notation for Electric fields, Superposition and interference

Lecture 10 - Fabry-Perot inteferometer and it transmittance

Lecture 11 - Physical interpretation of FP transmittance

Lecture 12 - Recap of Fabry-Perot modes

Lecture 13 - Free spectral range of a Fabry-Perot etalon

Lecture 14 - Resonator modes and optical pulses - insight

Lecture 15 - Table - Top Coherent and Incoherent Imaging

Lecture 16 - Recap of Etalon free spectral range

Lecture 17 - Line width and finesse of an etalon

Lecture 18 - Actual resonator modes

Lecture 19 - Resonator configurations and stability

Lecture 20 - Recap of optical resonators

Lecture 21 - Introduction of light pulses

Lecture 22 - Complex amplitude, Gaussian pulse

Lecture 23 - Recap of light pulses

Lecture 24 - Introduction of Fourier Transforms

Lecture 25 - Tutorial 1

Lecture 26 - Motivating Fourier Transforms

Lecture 27 - Fourier Transform Properties

Lecture 28 - Frequency domain electric field

Lecture 29 - Recap of Fourier transform properties

Lecture 30 - Frequency domain description of pulses

Lecture 31 - Spectral Phase

Lecture 32 - Recap of spectral phase

Lecture 33 - Instantaneous Frequency and group delay

Lecture 34 - Phase wrapping, blanking, and Tayor series expansion

Lecture 35 - Recap of instantaneous frequency, phase wrapping, and phase blanking

Lecture 36 - Frequency domain phase expansion, group delay dispersion

Lecture 37 - Absolute Phase

Lecture 38 - Recap of concepts + discussion

Lecture 39 - Absolute Phase (revisited)

Lecture 40 - Carrier envelope phase, frequency comb

Lecture 41 - Discussion

Lecture 42 - Recap of concepts

Lecture 43 - First order phase

Lecture 44 - Second order phase

Lecture 45 - Recap of first order and second order phase

Lecture 46 - Chirped pulse: Instantaneous frequency and Fourier transform

Lecture 47 - Group delay, nonlinearly chirped pulse

Lecture 48 - Recap of chirped pulses

Lecture 49 - Quadratic chirp pulses

Lecture 50 - Higher order spectral phase

Lecture 51 - Recap and discussion on higher order phase

Lecture 52 - Relative importance of intensity and phase

Lecture 53 - Pulse propagation through a medium

Lecture 54 - Recap of pulse propagation and pulse length

Lecture 55 - Discussion of RMS pulse width and uncertainty principle

Lecture 56 - Time-bandwidth product

Lecture 57 - Recap of previous module

Lecture 58 - Introduction of Lorentz Oscillator Model

Lecture 59 - Effect of matter on light

Lecture 60 - Recap of Lorentz oscillator, Polarization tensor

Lecture 61 - Dynamics of electrons in the Lorentz oscillator

Lecture 62 - Solving the inhomogeneous wave equation

Lecture 63 - Inhomogeneous wave equation, absorption coefficient, refractive index

Lecture 64 - Nonlinear response of matter

Lecture 65 - Origin of nonlinear optical effects

Lecture 66 - Wave equation in an inert gas

Lecture 67 - Perturbation theory and second harmonics

Lecture 68 - Numerical simulation strategy

Lecture 69 - Atoms in the presence of fields

Lecture 70 - Ionization models

Lecture 71 - Attosecond pulse generation and metrology

Lecture 72 - Nonlinear optics review

Lecture 73 - Nonlinear response of matter to light

Lecture 74 - Sum and difference frequency generation

Lecture 75 - Recap of sum and difference frequency generation, second harmonic generation

Lecture 76 - Generalized nonlinear effects, conservation laws in SHG

Lecture 77 - Phase matching in SHG, polarization dependent refractive index