Class: Laser Engineering
Class room: 92C01 (電機系館12F)
Lecturer: Tzong-Yow Tsai, 蔡宗祐,
Office: EE department, 92A05
Office Hour: 8:00-11:00 Monday.
Textbook: Laser Electronics (Author: Joseph T. Verdeyen)
Books for Reference:
1. Lasers (Author: Anthony E. Siegman)
2. Optical Wave in Crystal (Author: Amnon Yariv, Rochi Yeh)
Homeworks (80%, Matlab programming)
Final Exam (a program or a paper report) (20%)
Paper report:
1.      mode locking or Q-switching techs that are related to “fiber lasers”
Find the papers in the following Journals:  IEEE (Photonics technology letters, Journal of lightwave technology, Journal of quantum electronics), optics letters, optics express, applied optics, Class outline
1.      Laser Physics
l          Atomic radiation, spontaneous, stimulated emission
l          Einstein A, B coefficients
l          Amplification and gain saturation
l          Pump, gain distribution in fiber
l          Laser Dynamics, Q-switching 
2.      Fiber resonators and resonant modes
l          Basic Electromagnetics
l          Gaussian beam
l          Resonant cavities, modes