The two semester module is intended for students having at least a BSC degree in physics and wishing to specialize in the field. The courses cover the fundamentals and applications of laser physics as a basis of a highly advanced modern technology. Together with the theoretical background of the field, we offer experimental and theoretical studies in generation and measurements of ultrafast and high intensity laser pulses in the femtosecond range. Up to date applications in biology, in medicine, in environmental sciences, and in modern material processing are also part of the program.

After meeting the requirements of the program consisting of an optional preparatory course (strengthening also the English knowledge of the students), two semesters of theoretical studies complemented by a lab practical course, the students will have an extended knowledge and understanding of the most important experimental and theoretical principles in laser physics, which fit them for employment as professionals in laboratories and related industries. They will have the ability to communicate their knowledge to specialist and non-specialist audiences and develop learning skills enabling them for continuously updating and renewing their knowledge in physics.

The length of the program is 10 months, which may be preceded with a preparatory module (English and physics specific preparatory courses – ~8 weeks).

In the 2^nd semester the students must enter into research projects of the groups project work Courses include the following titles:

Laser physics

High intensity lasers and their applications

Introduction to femtosecond- and nonlinear optics

From femtosecond lasers to attosecond physics

Modern spectroscopy

Nonlinear optics

Optics and laser physics laboratory

Fundamentals of light matter interactions

Quantum optics

Laser-based photoacoustic spectroscopy

Laser material processing

Lasers in Medicine

Lasers in Biophysics

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