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Optics and Photonics
Selim JochimMPI für Kernphysik und
Uni HeidelbergEmail: [email protected]
Website for this lecture: www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/ultracold/teaching
What will you learn in this course?
• How to use advanced photonics instruments and technology in the laboratory
• Learn to develop your own ideas on how to make use of photonics for (precision) experiments
• Knowlegde that is widely needed in many labs here:– Biomedical research– Laser spectroscopy– High-power “ultrafast” lasers for atomic physics– Laser cooling and trapping, (quantum) manipulation of
atoms, molecules or ions
Motivation
• We make (increasingly) heavy use of photonics in our daily life:
• Two interesting examples:
• Green laser pointers emit bright light at 532 nm: How are they made? make use of almost anything you will learn in this course!!
• DVD reader/writer ( resolution of a microscope for a few €!!)
Contents
Preliminary list:• 20.4. geometric optics, rays
• 27.4. wave optics, gaussian beams,
• 4.5. fourier optics, holography
• 11.5. Polarization, linear, circular birefringence
• 18.5. Optical coatings, wave guides, fibers ...
• 25.5. Atom-photon interactions
Contents II
• 1.6. Lasers: principle, optical resonators, eigenmodes
• 8.6. More lasers, solid state lasers, dye lasers, etc.
• 15.6. Pulsed lasers: Q-swtiching, mode locking, extremely short pulses
• 22.6. Semiconductor photonics: detectors, LEDs, Lasers
• 29.6. Nonlinear optics concepts
Contents III
• 6.7. Nonlinear optics applications: Frequency doubling, mixing ...
• 13.7. Advanced applications: Frequency comb, optical synthesizer ...
• 20.7. accoustooptical and electrooptical tools: AOM EOM etc.
• 27.7. Reserved for special topics, extra time that certain subjects may require
Recommended literature
• Davis: Lasers and Electro-Optics: Fundamentals and Engineering
• Saleh, Teich: Fundamentals of Photonics
• Demtröder: Laserspektroskopie
• Hecht, Optics (Especially the first few lectures)
Geometric (ray) optics
• Light propagates as rays with “speed of light”, c in vacuum
• In a medium, the light is slowed down by the refractive index n
• In an inhomogeneous system, propagation is governed by Fermat’s principle:
Minimize optical path length: ( )d 0B
A
n s r
Reflection and Refraction
• Easily derived from Fermat’s principle
Parabolic mirror
Parallel beams are focused onto a single spot:
Car headlight!
Spherical mirror
Paraxial rays:Close to optical axis, rays will be focused toF=R/2
Imaging with spherical mirrors
1 2
1 1 1 1
2z z R f
Thin lenses
1 2
1 1 1( 1)( )n
f R R
Paraxial imaging
1 2
1 1 1
z z f 2
2 11
zy y
z
Magnification
Interfaces between dielectrics …
• n2>n1 …
• Total internal reflection ….
critical angle:
2
1
arcsin( )C
n
n
Where total internal reflection is used
• Prisms, e.g. binoculars, camera viewfinder
• Optical fibers:
Matrix formalism for parax. rays
• Use it to describe a complex optical system with a single (2,2)-matrix
• Define state of a ray by a 2-comp. vector:
valid if
Example matrices
• Free space propagation
• Refraction at a surface
Optical system ….
Where the paraxial approx. fails …
Focussing of a laser beam:
Minimize non-paraxial distortions:
Plano-convex lens, also “best form lens”
Spherical aberration …
• Can we make all parallel rays incident on a lens end up in a single spot??
Aspheric lens?
• Optical path length should be the same for all angles ….
Aspheric lenses
• All kinds of quality grades available
• Molded, plastic material
Precision machined …
ASPHERIC LIMITS
STANDARD
HIGH PRECISION
Diameter (mm) 15-120 15-120
Length (mm) 10.5-85 10.5-85
Width (mm) 10.5-85 10.5-85
Dimensional Tolerances (µm)
25 5
Center Thickness Tolerance (µm)
100 35
Wedge Tolerance (µm)
75 25
Surface Quality 60-40 10-5
Radius Limits (mm) LRC Limited
LRC Limited
Concave >30.0 >30.0
Convex >5.0 >5.0
Radius Tolerance (%)
0.1 0.05
Total SAG (mm) <25 <25
Aspheric Surface Accuracy (wave)
1/4 1/10