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Regarding all books, check if available at the central bookstore. Books available at Amazon UK. Contact the course responsible if needed.
 
Associate Prof Teresa Neves Petersen has listed the books pertaining to the courses she teaches. The other lectors have not selected a special book and instead will give you course notes.
 
 
All 8th semester courses notes ahead
Courses taught by the Nanobio group 
 
 
Courses
 
1- Advanced Spectroscopy
Lector: Associate Professor Teresa Neves Petersen
 
Book: Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy (Hardcover)
by Joseph R. Lakowicz (Author)
 
  • Hardcover: 954 pages
  • Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.; 3Rev Ed edition (Aug 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0387312781
  • ISBN-13: 978-0387312781
  • Product Dimensions: 28.4 x 23.2 x 6 cm
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    Additional material will be given to the students as lecture notes or copies of relevant book chapters.
     
    Lecture notes:
    Lesson 1 here
     
    Lesson 2
     
     
    Lesson 3
     
     
    Lesson 4
     
     
     
    2- Ultrafast Spectroscopy
    Lector: Associate Professor Teresa Neves Petersen
    Books:
    Femtosecond Laser Pulses by Claude Rullière, Second Editon
    You can get copies of relevant chapters from this book (no need to buy the book):
     
    Femtochemistry (Hardcover)
    by F.C.De Schryver (Author), S.De Feyter (Author), G. Schweiter (Author)
    You can get copies of relevant chapters from this book (no need to buy the book)

     

    Lecture notes:
     
    Topics Lecture 1
    Introcuction to Ultrafast Phenomena and their timescales
    Principles of Laser Action: population invertion, stimulated vs spontaneous emission
    Transverse modes
    Continuous vs Pulsed lasers: Q-switching (acousto-optic and electro-optical Q-switching), Wave plates and Pockel cells.
    How to amplify laser pulses
     
    Lesson 1 - notes here
    Problem session here
     
     

     
    Topics Lecture 2
    Cavity laser modes and mode locking
    Laser amplification
    Pulse stretching and pulse compression
    Chirped pulse amplification
    Regenerative amplifier
     
    Lesson 2 - Part I here
    Lesson 2 - Part II here
    Problem session here
     
     
     
    Topics Lecture 3
    Non-linear optics
    Second harmonic generation
    White-light generation
    Phase-matching
    Optical Kerr effect
    Optical Kerr effect in the modelocking process
    Optical parametric amplification
    BBO and LBO crystals
    How to get from 800nm light to visible and UV light in a Topas white
     
    Lesson 3 - notes here 
     Notes on Phase matching
     Notes on group velocity and group velocity dispersion here
     

     
    Topics Lecture 4
    Continuation of lecture 3
     
     
    Lesson 4 - notes here 
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