Photonics/Fotonica
Course Code 500610
Marco Liscidini
Department of Physics, University of Pavia, Italy
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Outline
• What do we mean by “photonics”?
• What do we do in this course?
• How do we do it?
• Technicalities
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What is photonics?
Photonics is a branch of physics that
involves the application of generation,
manipulation, and detection of light.
….more broadly, in this course we deal
with the light-matter interaction
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In the past courses…
In the bachelor courses of electromagnetism, one typically
introduces several hypotheses:
Homogeneous,
isotropic,
and linear media
In many contexts, these are totally fine, but in many others, they
are not!
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In real life
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Photonics in physics
Polarizations, Hamiltonians, raising
coupled mode and
equations,… lowering operators,
…
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Topics
Light Optical resonators
propagation in and cavities
dielectric
waveguides
Elements of
classical and
quantum optics
Classical and
Quantum light- quantum Nonlinear
matter interaction optics
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Benefits of this course
You will understand better
You will learn
• more about classical • fundamental
e.m. concepts in classical
physics
• more about quantum
optics • fundamental
concepts in quantum
• new approaches to
physics
solve physics problems
• the light-matter
• new phenomena
interaction
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How do WE do it?
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Three fundamental rules
#1 There is no such thing as a stupid
question
#2 There is no such thing as a stupid
question!!
#3 There is no such thing as a stupid
question!!!
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Calendar (variations)
7/10/2024 No lecture
9/10/2024 Lecture 9-11 Room 326
25/10/2024 Lecture 9-11 Room 326
8/11/2024 Lecture 9-11 Room 326
22/11/2024 Lecture 9-11 Room 326
25/11/2024 No lecture
27/11/2024 No lecture
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Technicalities
• The lecture materials will be posted on KIRO.
• Videos of previous lectures will be made available upon request (Please note
that the program may be slightly different)
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Technicalities
Write an email
Appointment
Office 2-60
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Exam
Option 1: Oral exam on 3 topics*
Option 2: Oral exam on 2 topics* + Exercises
* including (4) the light-matter interaction and/or (5) nonlinear optics
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Any question?
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