= B3 Oxford physics course
{title2=Third year Atomic and laser physics}
https://users.physics.ox.ac.uk/~lvovsky/B3/ contain assorted PDFs from between 2015 and 2019
Syllabus reads:
* Multi-electron atoms: central field approximation, electron configurations, shell structure, residual electrostatic interaction, spin orbit coupling (<fine structure>).
* Spectra and energy levels: <Term symbols>, <selection rules>, X-ray notation, Auger transitions.
* <Hyperfine structure>; effects of magnetic fields on fine and hyperfine structure. Presumably <Zeeman effect>.
* Two level system in a classical light field: Rabi oscillations and Ramsey fringes, decaying states; Einstein
* <Einstein coefficients>[A and B coefficients]; homogeneous and inhomogeneous broadening of spectral lines; rate equations.
* Optical absorption and gain: <population inversion> in <three-level laser>[3-] and <four-level laser>[4-level] systems; optical gain cross section; saturated absorption and gain.
Professor in 2000s seems to be
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ewart[]. He actually fought not to be dismissed by age and won!
* https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/our-people/ewart
But as of 2023 marked emeritus, so who took over?
Ewart is actually religious:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aulL-Qa65i0 Paul Ewart, Chance, Science and Spirituality by <Faraday Institute for Science and Religion>. Oh, he is/was actually chairman of that crap
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVX2F4XvGYo Chaos and the Character of God by Prof. Paul Ewart
This dude is pure trouble for Oxford!
Undated materials Ewart:
* https://users.physics.ox.ac.uk/~ewart/index.htm
* https://users.physics.ox.ac.uk/~ewart/Atomic%20Physics%20lecture%20notes%20C%20port.pdf
* slides: https://users.physics.ox.ac.uk/~ewart/Atomic%20Physics%20Lecture%20PPT%20slides%201_8.pdf[]. Also under: https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2011-10-19/atomic_physics_lectures_1_8_09_pdf_pdf_18283.pdf[]. The course was previously B1, they just change the IDs randomly from time to time to fit the B1-7 numbering.
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