Physics 223 Lab Assignments Fall 2000

week 1	January 14	Set up web page to post results Read about absorption and stimulated and spontaneous emission in Koechner, Laser Engineering Solve population rate equations from Erbium fiber paper for steady state case. Be ready to write program next week.
week 2	January 21	Get started with Fortran, write program to calculate N1, N2, N3 for steady state case Work on solving the time dependent rate equations (one way to approach this would be to solve a simple case first...) Work on Student Research Grant Proposal
week 3	January 28	Work on Student Research Grant Proposal
week 4	February 4	Work on solving the time dependent rate equations
week 5	February 11	Work on getting Fortran working correctly
week 6	February 18	Switch to Basic because of computer issues, keep working on Fortran Get those time dependent rate equations in basic
week 7	February 25	more of same...
week 8	March 4	Spring Vacation
week 9	March 11
week 10	March 18
week 11	March 25
week 12	April 1
week 13	April 8
week 14	April 15
week 15	April 22

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