This is a "download area" for various materials related to the
OPTI-583 course.
Opti-583 students: Note that items come and go. I will only
keep minimum here.
Latest material :
Notes :
OPTI583 notes, part 1: Numerics of Maxwell solvers
OPTI583 notes, part 2: Unidirectional pulse propagation models
OPTI583 notes, part 3: Spectral propagators
OPTI583 notes, essential minimum about spatial and temporal solitons.
This text is to help with simulation templates in packages 3 an 4.
Phase-matching conditions in white light generation: Derivation.
OPTI583 notes: On light-matter interactions, modeling perspective
Literature:
Physics context:
Femtosecond Filamentation in Transparent Media
Ultrashort filaments of light in weakly ionized, optically transparent media
Computer simulations, algorithms, implementation... :
Practioner's guide to laser pulse propagation
models and simulation
Simulation software:
gUPPEcore/lab User Guide
Simulation templates :
Packages with simulation mini-projects will be posted here
before we use them in the class. Student homework will
often derive from these...
In OPTI-583, we will utilize a simplified version of a
UPPE simulator, in particular one which does not require
MPI parallelization library. Get it here:
Download opti583UPPElab.tar
Unpack these tar archives in the folder "templates" of your
opti583UPPElab:
Download OPTI583-ST-1.tar
Inputs/outputs description of the uppe simulator
Download OPTI583-ST-2.tar
Simulation templates for basic propagation in linear regimes
Download OPTI583-ST-3.tar
Simulation templates: Self-focusing collapse (CW and pulsed)
Note: This file has been replaced --- the original wrk_021_ was 'bad'
Download OPTI583-ST-4.tar
Simulation templates for temporal solitons
Download OPTI583-ST-5.tar
Simulation templates for spatial solitons
Download OPTI583-ST-6.tar
Simulation template for supercontinuum generation in a micfostructure fiber.
Download OPTI583-ST-7.tar
Simulation template for supercontinuum generation water.
Download OPTI583-ST-8.tar
Simulation template to study optical pulse splitting in dispersive nonlinear media.
Download OPTI583-ST-x1.tar
User-defined modifications to UPPEcore: initial conditions.
Download OPTI583-ST-x2.tar
User-defined modifications to UPPEcore: nonlinear medium response.
Download OPTI583-ST-9.tar
Simulation template to study third and fifth harmonic generation in nonlinear media.
Download OPTI583-ST-10.tar
Simulation template to appreciate specifics of few-cycle pulses
Download OPTI583-ST-11.tar
Modeling issues in few-cycle pulses
Download OPTI583-ST-12.tar
Modeling pump-probe experiments, A.
Download OPTI583-ST-13.tar
Modeling pump-probe experiments, B.
Homework :
Homework 1: DUE MONDAY Sept. 28
Assignment: 1D Maxwell, dispersion, ABCs, ...
Here is a tar file with templates: opti583-hw1.tar
Homework 2: DUE MONDAY Oct. 5
Assignment: Pulse propagation, theory ...
Homework 3: DUE MONDAY Oct. 19
Simulation: Ultra-short pulses and chromatic dispersion
Here is a tar file with templates: opti583-hw3.tar
Homework 4: DUE MONDAY Nov. 9
Simple spectral pulse propagator using Hankel
It is strongly recommended that you submit a brief status report after a week.
Here is a tar file with potentially useful sources: forHW4.tar
HW4 Instructor's Solution: tar archive
Final Projects
List I of potential final project topics
List II of potential final project topics
Final project P-SC download tar archive
Final project P-RES download tar archive
Final project P-TH download tar archive
Final project P-RP download pdf
Final project P-CHI2 download pdf
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