Tutorials: optics, photonics, laser plasma, HED

Optical phenomena and elements

Melles Griot optics guide

Polarization and polarization control

Nanopositioning and piezo tutorial (Physik Instrumente)

Science of Laser Plasma and High Energy Density Physics

LLNL laser plasma tutorial

Workshop on High Energy Density Physics (May 2004)

Stockpile Stewardship

Microscopy

Nikon Microscopy U

Olympus primer

Confocal imaging

Nomarski (differential interference contrast) microscopy

Other Measurement Techniques

Raman spectroscopy tutorial

Ellipsometry: J. A. Woollam, Rudolph ellipsometer

The Light Measurement Handbook (3.8 MB pdf)

Laser fundamentals

Chirped pulse amplification (cpa)

History of excimer lasers (3 MB pdf)

Beam Quality, lenses and M²

Beam profiling (2 MB pdf)

lens design calculator

Hyperphysics tutorial on lenses

Application note on M² (by Spiricon)

Application note on divergence (US Laser Corp.)

Application note on M² (US Laser Corp.)

Inertial Fusion Energy

UC Berkeley Inertial Fusion Energy Tutorial

100 kg of TNT = 418 MJ (150 pounds of explosives destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995).

Tutorial on Noise (see also this pdf file)

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