Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
This course provides the introduction to lasers and how they work, including quantum transitions in atoms, stimulated emission and amplification, rate equations, saturation, laser resonators, and optical beams. In addition, various laser applications will be discussed.
4 weeks, 1 hour per week
Yin-Wen Lee
Professor of Electro-Optical Engineering, Taipei Tech
Taipei Medical University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Understand operating principles of a laser system.
- Learn about three main elements of a laser.
- Calculate laser gain and output power.
- Analyze laser efficiency and pumping threshold.
- Explore laser applications.
Syllabus
- Overview of general laser systems
- Interaction between light and matters
- Gain generation
- Laser resonators
- Laser performance
- Laser applications
Issued on 7th October 2023
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