Duration
Number of credits
| University certificate : training in "the use of lasers in dental medicine" | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Collégialité
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Laser fundamentals:
- Atomic structure
- Quantum optics
- Electronic states
- Absorption/emission (spontaneous emission, stimulated emission)
- Amplification (population inversion, two and three level scheme)
- Optic resonator
- The Fabry-Perot interferometer
- Monochromaticity
- Coherence
- Directionality
- Polarization
- Propagation modes (longitudinal, transverse, multimode)
- Gaussian beams
- Active medium
- Pumping system
- Resonator
- Operation mode (continuous wave, pulsed)
- Dosimetry
- Laser classification
- Absorption mechanisms (resonant, non resonant)
- Thermal interaction
- Fusion
- Vaporization
- Plasma formation
- Photochemical interaction
- Applications & workshops