This document outlines an assignment for an optics and lasers physics course. The assignment consists of 5 problems: 1) Calculate the temperature where spontaneous and stimulated emission rates are equal for a 10 micron wavelength. 2) Derive the Rayleigh-Jeans and Wien blackbody radiation laws from Planck's law. 3) Reproduce Einstein's two-level atom analysis to derive Planck's law and relate the Einstein A and B coefficients. 4) Calculate the wavelength of peak emission for the sun assuming it radiates as a blackbody at 5800 K. 5) Plot average photon number vs. frequency and temperature.
This document outlines an assignment for an optics and lasers physics course. The assignment consists of 5 problems: 1) Calculate the temperature where spontaneous and stimulated emission rates are equal for a 10 micron wavelength. 2) Derive the Rayleigh-Jeans and Wien blackbody radiation laws from Planck's law. 3) Reproduce Einstein's two-level atom analysis to derive Planck's law and relate the Einstein A and B coefficients. 4) Calculate the wavelength of peak emission for the sun assuming it radiates as a blackbody at 5800 K. 5) Plot average photon number vs. frequency and temperature.
This document outlines an assignment for an optics and lasers physics course. The assignment consists of 5 problems: 1) Calculate the temperature where spontaneous and stimulated emission rates are equal for a 10 micron wavelength. 2) Derive the Rayleigh-Jeans and Wien blackbody radiation laws from Planck's law. 3) Reproduce Einstein's two-level atom analysis to derive Planck's law and relate the Einstein A and B coefficients. 4) Calculate the wavelength of peak emission for the sun assuming it radiates as a blackbody at 5800 K. 5) Plot average photon number vs. frequency and temperature.
1. For a system in thermal equilibrium, calculate the temperature at which the
rates of spontaneous and stimulated emission are equal for a wavelength of 10 m. 2. Under what conditions you obtain (a) Rayleigh-Jeans law and (b) Wien’s blackbody radiation law from Planck’s blackbody radiation law. 3. Reproduce Einstein two-level atom analysis to obtain Planck’s blackbody radiation. How are the Einstein A and B coefficients related? What happens if you ignore stimulated emission in the rate equation? 4. The surface temperature of the Sun is 5800 K and measurements of the Sun’s spectral distribution show that it radiates very nearly like a blackbody, deviating mainly at very short wavelengths. Assuming that the Sun radiates like an ideal blackbody, at what wavelength does the peak of the solar spectrum occur? 5. (a) Plot the average photon number in a mode of the radiation field as a function of frequency ( =500 – 800 nm) at a temperature of 4000 K. (b) Plot the average photon number as a function of temperature ( =2000 – 7000 K) at of frequency of 1.2 x1014 Hz.