Summer Semester 2024

Ultrafast Sources

Lecture notes

The course will combine lectures and problem sets with hands-on experimental work in the laboratory, including building your own femtosecond fiber laser.

The course Ultrafast Sources is held by Prof. Francesca Calegari, Prof. Tobias Herr, Prof. Franz X. Kärtner, and Agata Azzolin at the University of Hamburg during the Summer Semester 2024.  Below you can find all the necessary information:

Lectures: Tue 15:00-16:30 and Thu 15:00-16:30, in presence

Lab/Exercises: Thu 16:45-18:15, in presence

Location: CFEL, Seminar Room IV

Content:

  • Linear and nonlinear pulse propagation: Optical solitons, pulse compression, and supercontinua. Femtosecond laser frequency combs.
  • Laser dynamics: Single-mode, multi-mode, Q-switching, mode locking.
  • Pulse characterization.
  • Laser amplifiers and parametric amplifiers.
  • Attosecond Sources and Attosecond Science.