Resources

What is like doing a PhD? 

Pre-Lab Reading:

• Book by Rohit Prasankumar and A. J. Taylor (You can read Chapter 1-3, 7-9, 10)

Basics of Lasers:

• Laser Electronics by J.T. Verdeyan 

• Lasers, Anthony E. Siegman, (University Science Books, 1986)

• Quantum Electronics, 3rd ed., Amnon Yariv, (Wiley, 1989).

• Femtosecond technology - from basic research to application prospects, T. Kamiya, et. al (Eds.), Springer Series in Photonics, (Springer-Verlag, 1999).

Some useful reviews:

1. Ultrafast spectroscopy of quantum materials 

2. THz Materials

3.  2D materials towards ultrafast photonic applications

4. Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy of Two-Dimensional Materials Beyond Graphene

5. Carrier dynamics in semiconductors studied with time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy.

6. Excellent review from Prof. Schmuttenmaer of Yale university on TDS THz Spectroscopy (2018) .

7. Good review on ultrafast laser technology and spectroscopy

8. The birth of topological insulators

9. Topological Insulators Turn a Corner

10. 2021 Quantum materials Roadmap

Basics of Ultrafast Spectroscopy:

• Book on Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena, Jean-Claude Diels and Wolfgang Rudolph, (Academic Press, 1996).

• Book on Femtosecond lasers by C. Rulliere

• Lasers for ultrashort light pulses, Joachim Herrmann and Bernd Wilhelmi, (North-Holland, 1987). -

• Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating: The Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses, Rick Trebino, (Kluwer Academic Pubishers, 2002). - An excellent introduction to the field of ultrafast optics.

Basics of THz Spectroscopy

• THz generation and detection methods, Book Chapter from Prof. Ingrid Wilkie, RPI (2010).

• Book by Rohit Prasankumar and A. J. Taylor

• Book on Terahertz Spectroscopy: Principles and Applications by Susan L. Dexheimer

• Book on Principles of Terahertz Science and Technology by Y. S. Lee

Some impotant Links :

http://halas.rice.edu/conversions

http://www.thz.org.mx/groups.php

Amazing talk on ""How Laws, Sausages, and Science are Made: an Inside View of How Science Really Works" by Prof. Abbamonte, Univ of Illinoise Urbana-Champaign, USA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJaZs6UfnGw