(42 Lectures + 14 Tutorial)

1. Introduction to general lasers and their types, emission, absorption processes and rate equations, population inversion, gain, optical cavities, three and four level lasers, CW and pulsed lasers, Q-switching and mode-locking, physics of gas discharge,atomic,ionic,molecular,liquid,andexcimerlasers,opticalpumping,Holography
2. Overviewofnon-linearOptics, nonlinear polarization, nonlinear optical susceptibility, Symmetry considerations
3. Wave propagation in nonlinear media
4. Electroopticalandmagnetoopticaleffects
5. Higherharmonicgenerations,phasematchingandquasiphasematching,Sumand difference frequency generation, Optical parametric amplification and oscillation
6. Kerr effect, Cross-Phase Modulation, Self phase modulation, Multi-photon processes , Self focusing, Four-Wave Mixing
7. Laser Spectroscopy, wave front conjugation StimulatedRamanScattering,StimulatedBrillouinScattering,OpticalsolitonsandOpticalpulsecompression