Material covered in week 3 (28.04.2025 + 30.4.2025)
2.3 Elementary optics continued
- diffraction
reading material: Jackson Classical Electrodynamics ch. 10.5+10.9
2.4 Sum-frequency generation
reading material: Boyd Nonlinear Optics, ch. 2.1-2.3
Material covered in week 2 (23.04.2025)
2.3 Elementary optics continued
- absorption, dispersion
reading material: Greiner Classical Electrodynamics, ch. 16-17; Jackson Classical Electrodynamics ch. 6.6-6.8
Material covered in week 1 (14.04.2025 + 16.04.2025)
1. Introduction: Overview over possible descriptions of light-matter interaction
- classical light + classical matter
- classical light + quantum matter (aka semi-classical light-matter interaction)
- quantum light + quantum matter (aka quantum optics)
2. Classical description of light-matter interaction
2.1 Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves (reading material: any E&M textbook)
2.2 Macroscopic polarization
- polarization as matter response function (reading material: Greiner Classical Electrodynamics, ch. 6 or Nolting Theo. Physics 3, ch. 2.4
2.3 Elementary optics
- transmission & reflection (reading material: Greiner Classical Electrodynamics, ch. 6)