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Photonics/Fotonica

Course Code 500610

Marco Liscidini
Department of Physics, University of Pavia, Italy
[Link]@[Link]

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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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