PHYS 523 -- Quantum Electronics and Nonlinear Optics - UBC/Spring 2005 - Homework #1
Homework #1
Assigned January 7, 2005
Due January 31, 2005
Topic : Second harmonic generation
Problem set : PHYS523_HW1.pdf
Problem set solutions : Scott's and Murray's.
Supplemental Notes: (to be discussed in class week of January 17)
Suggested reading: (papers marked * to be discussed in class week of January 17)
- SHG references:
- Mills pages 51-63. [Mills_p51-63.pdf]
- G.D. Boyd and D.A. Kleinman, J. Appl. Phys. 39, 3597 (1968). []
- Examples of Resonant SHG Cavities:
- A. Ashkin, G. D. Boyd, and J. M. Dziedzic, IEEE J. Quant. Electronics 2, 109 (1966). [Ashkin66.pdf]*
- W. J. Kozlovsky, C.D. Nabors, and R. L. Byers, IEEE J. Quant. Electronics 24, 913 (1988). [Kozlovsky88.pdf]*
- Kaler et al, Phys Rev A 51, 2789 (1995). [Kaler95.pdf]
- Hemmerich et al Opt Lett. 15, 372 (1990). [Hemmerich90.pdf]
- Cavity Stability of Gaussian modes:
- Saleh and Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics ISBN 0-471-83965-5 (on reserve). []
- Yariv, Chapter 7. []
- Nonlinear crystals:
- Yariv and Yeh, Optical Waves in Crystals ISBN 0-471-43081-1 (on reserve). []
- Stabilization schemes:
- T. W. Haensch and B. Couillau, Opt. Commun. 35, 441 (1980). []