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Ultrafast Optics
Art: not stated, Fletcher's Combined Block Telegraph Apparatus and Bell, 1889 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. Franz Kärtner
- Term
- Spring 2005
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 26 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 6.977 Ultrafast Optics, Spring 2005, Prof. Franz Kärtner — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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- Ultrafast Optics - Textbook Download
- Problem Set 1 Download
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- This resource provides information on generation and characterization of ultrashort pulses… (rate_relaxation.pdf) Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Maxwell-Bloch Equation
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Lecture 3: Two-Level Atoms and Rabi Flopping
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Lecture 4: Dispersion, Absorption, Gain
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Lecture 5: Nonlinear Pulse Propagation
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Lecture 6: Pulse Compression
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Lecture 7: Self-Phase Modulation (SPM) and Solitons
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Lecture 8: Soliton Perturbation Theory
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Lecture 9: Rate Equations and Relaxation Oscillation
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Lecture 10: Q-Switching
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Lecture 11: Master Equation and Active Mode-Locking
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Lecture 12: Passive Mode-Locking with Fast Saturable Absorbers
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Lecture 13: Passive Mode-Locking with Slow Saturable Absorbers
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Lecture 14: Artificial Saturable Absorber Mode-Locking (APM and KLM)
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Lecture 15: Kerr-Lens Mode-Locking (KLM)
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Lecture 16: Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Mode-Locking
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Lecture 17: Pulse Characterization I - Autocorrelation
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Lecture 18: Pulse Characterization II - FROG and SPIDER
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Lecture 19: Noise in Mode-Locked Lasers
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Lecture 20: Frequency Metrology
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Lecture 21: Ultrafast Measurement Techniques
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Lecture 22: Pulse Amplification
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Lecture 23: Optical Parametric Amplification (OPA) and Optical Parametric Oscillation (OPO)
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Lecture 24: Broadband Parametric Amplification
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Lecture 25: High-Harmonic Generation and Seeded Free-Electron Lasers
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Lecture 26: Ultrafast Optics Group Lab Tour
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