Links you might find helpful
Books
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J. Peatros, Physics of Light and Optics, a good (and free!) electronic book
(available http://optics.byu.edu/textbook.aspx)
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B. Saleh, and M. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics, Wiley-Interscience,
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Y. B. Band, Light and Matter, Wiley and Sons (2006)
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R. Guenther, Modern Optics, Wiley and Sons (1990)
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H. Hecht, Optics, Wiley & Sons
Lecture Notes
----------- Intro and Gaussian Beams
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Lesson 4: Statistical description of beams, Short pulse Gaussian Beams
----------- Fourier Optics
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Lesson 5: Fourier transform and spatial harmonic analysis
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Lesson 6: Far-field Fourier tranform, lens as Fourier transformer
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Lesson 6-supp: Notes on Fourier transforms (courtesy from Cheung IC London)
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----------- Electromagnetic Optics
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Lesson 11: Absoprtion, resonant medium and dispersion
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Lesson 13: Reflection/Transmission s- p- polarization non-isotropic crystals
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Lesson 15: Electro-optical effects, optical activity and magneto-optical effect
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----------- Lasers
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Lesson 19: pumping schemes, common amplifiers, saturation effects
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----------- Nonlinear optics
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Lesson 22: introduction, second order optics (some slides from R. Trebino)
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Lesson 23: second harmonic generation, phase matching (some slides from R. Trebino)
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Lesson 24: optical parametric oscillators, 3rd order optics
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Lesson 25: 3rd order optics effects: self phase modulation and focusing
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Lesson 26-supp: Zettawatt laser & their applications
in ultra-strong field physics