About the course
Intended Audience
Senior UG and PG students
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of quantum mechanics and optics would be helpful
Industries that will recognize this course
NA
Week 1:
Introduction; Importance: why laser?, unique properties of lasers; Brief history of laser development ; Laser basics
Week 2:
Concept of stimulated emission; Einstein’s coefficients; Population inversion; Amplification of stimulated emission; Laser instrumentation fundamentals: Cavity, resonator and pumping processes; Gain medium
Week 3:
Coherent radiation, standing waves and modes; The kinetics of laser emission; Rate equations; Threshold conditions; Pulsed and continuous wave laser emission; Various pulsing techniques: cavity dumping, Q-switching and mode-locking
Week 4:
Transitions, lifetimes and linewidths: Three level laser, Four-level laser, emission linewidth; Properties of laser light: monochromaticity, spatial and temporal coherence, intensity, beam-width Similarity transforms,
Week 5:
Laser sources; different types of lasers; Laser instrumentation details
Week 6:
Applications of lasers in spectroscopy, chemistry, biology, medical sciences and other fields
Week 7:
Applications of lasers in spectroscopy, chemistry, biology, medical sciences and other fields
Week 8:
Applications of lasers in spectroscopy, chemistry, biology, medical sciences and other fields Summary of the course
Course url: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_cy07
Course duration: 08 weeks
Start date and end date of course: 21 August 2017-13 October 2017
Date of exam: 22 October, 2017
Time of exam: Shift 1: 9 am-12 noon; Shift 2: 2 pm-5 pm
Any one shift can be chosen to write the exam for a course
Final List of exam cities will be available in exam registration form.
Registration url - Announcements will be made when the registration form is
open for registrations.
Exam Fee: The online registration form has to be filled and the
certification exam fee of approximately Rs 1000 needs to be paid.
E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the
exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score.
Final score = 25% assignment score + 75% exam score
25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of scores of Best 6 out of 8 assignments
Certificate will have
your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup. It will
have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kanpur. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.