Physics notes
Courses and notes
A curated set of study notes, course summaries, and longer-form writeups. Most pages are written for conceptual clarity first, with derivations included where they make the physics easier to understand.
Complete
Attosecond Physics
High-order harmonic generation, attosecond pulses, and ultrafast electron dynamics.
Complete
Plasmonics
Surface plasmon polaritons, localised modes, and metal-insulator interfaces.
Complete
Solid-State Theory
Periodic crystals, electrons in solids, transport, magnetism, and many-body notation.
Complete
Quantum Electronics
Electromagnetic theory, coherence, Fourier optics, resonators, lasers, and waveguides.
Complete
Ultrafast Laser Physics
Pulse propagation, dispersion, nonlinear optics, modelocking, noise, and frequency combs.
Complete
Crystal Optics in Intense Light Fields
Polarisation, magneto-optics, nonlinear light-matter interaction, and control of matter.
Complete
Signals and Systems
Linear systems, Fourier methods, sampling, transforms, filters, and feedback systems.
In progress
Quantum Optics
Quantisation of the electromagnetic field and quantum states of light.
Complete
Master Thesis
Theory, experimental setup, characterisation, results, and appendix material.