COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PRINCIPLES OF LASERS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
EEE 5018 PRINCIPLES OF LASERS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR METIN HÜSEYIN SABUNCU

Offered to

ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

Course Objective

The course Principles of lasers aims to make the students understand basic physical principles of light generation and amplification. Throughout the course students will relate the laser operation principles to the subjects of atom and molecular physics, solid state physics, and physical optics. After haven taken this course the student will understand operational principles and construction of lasers and be able to describe properties of different types of lasers and their application areas.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Laser gain medium calculations
2   Optical resonators and stability
3   Gaussian Beam parameters
4   Calculate laser efficiency
5   Know applications of lasers

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to lasers
2 Interaction of light with matter Spectroscopic characteristics of atomic and molecular media
3 Laser gain medium
4 Ray Optics and the Fabry Perot Resonator
5 Optical resonators
6 Gaussian Beams / Properties of Laser Light
7 Laser pumping and cw laser behaviour
8 Photon Lifetime, Output Power, Laser Efficiency Multimode Lasing Laser Noise
9 Midterm Exam
10 Transient laser behavior, Q-switching, mode-locking
11 Transformation of laser radiation Group Velocity Dispersion and Pulse Width
12 Types of lasers: solid state, semiconductor, dye, gas, chemical
13 Applications of Lasers
14 Laser Seminar

Recomended or Required Reading

Svelto Orazio, Principles of Lasers,
Springer, 4th Edition

REFERENCE BOOKS : - Saleh and Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics
Wiley, 2007
- Silfvast, Laser Fundamentals
- Quimby, Photonics and Lasers
- Hecht, Introduction to laser technology
- Sennaroglu, Photonics and laser engineering

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

assignments, lecture, exams

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE *0.35 + ASG *0.25 +FIN *0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE *0.35 + ASG *0.25 +RST *0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

homework, exam, seminar presentation

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

metin.sabuncu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 6 84
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 25 25
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 197

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.154
LO.254
LO.354
LO.454
LO.554

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