Student, who passed the course satisfactorily will be able to:
- Understand what stimulated emission, absorption and spontaneous emission is
- Understand what the limits of operation of laser systems are
- Understand what is meant by CW and pulsed lasers
- Understand how to formulate the gaussian solution to the wave equation
- Understand why gaussian beams are so important in laser physics
- Describe how a gaussian beam propogates inside the resonator as well as in free space
- Describe how different types of lasers work