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Zenghu Chang
Associate Professor, Department of Physics

Web address: www.phys.ksu.edu/~chang/
e-mail: chang@phys.ksu.edu
Phone: (785) 532-1621
Room: 330

Office Hour: by appointment
Lecture: M, W, F 12:30 at CW143, home work due every Friday 12:30
Lab: F 12.30 if arranged, Report due Wednesday the following week
Late turn in of homework and lab reports are not accepted except very special cases.

0.2 Grade Allocations

• Homework and Labs: 1/2
  
• Tests: 1/4
  
• Final exam: 1/4
• A:90-100, B:80-89, C:70-79, D:60-69, F:0-59

0.3 Text book

Lasers, by Anthony E. Siegman,

Stanford University. University Science Books (1986). 

0.4 Chapters to be covered

Chapter 16 Wave Optics and Gaussian Beams

Chapter 10 Nonlinear Pulse Propagation
Second test

Chapter 1 An Introduction to Lasers

Chapter 2 Stimulated Transitions: The Classical Oscillator Model

Chapter 7 Laser Amplification

Third test

Chapter 19 Stable Two-mirror Resonators (optional)
Chapter 27 Active Laser Mode Coupling

Final exam grades