Winter Semester 2024/2025

Ultrafast Optical Physics I - Part II

The course Ultrafast Optical Physics I - Chapter 6 - 8 is held by Prof. Dr. Francesca Calegari at the University of Hamburg during the Winter Semester 2024/2025, starting on the 3rd of December and ending on 28th of January 2025.

Course schedule

6. Optical Pulse Metrology
6.1 Time-resolved measurement
6.2 Intrinsically fast detectors
6.3 Autocorrelation methods
6.4 Frequency Resolved Optical Gating (FROG) 
6.5 Spectral Phase Interferometry 

7. Short pulses at non-standard frequencies 
7.1 THz pulses 
7.2 XUV pulses from High-order Harmonic Generation (HHG) 
7.3 XUV pulses from Free Electron Lasers (FELs)

8. Applications
8.1 Pump-probe schemes 
8.2 Time-resolved spectroscopy for physical chemistry 
8.3 Material processing 
8.4 Biology and Medicine