I second L Spice's recommendation of the book by Bushnell and Henniart, called "The local Langlands conjectures for GL(2)."
After you master the principal series representations, it's not too hard to tinker with some supercuspidals. Easiest among these are the tamely ramified supercuspidals. To construct these, let's start with the unramified quadratic extension L/K, with corresponding residue fields ell/k. Choose a character theta of Ltimes which has these properties:
(a) The character theta is trivial on 1+mathfrakpL, so that thetavertmathcalOtLimes factors through a character chi of elltimes.
(b) chi is distinct from its k-conjugate. (In other words, chi does not factor through the norm map to ktimes.)
It's a standard fact that there's a corresponding representation tauchi of textGL2(k), characterized by the identity texttrtauchi(g)=−(chi(alpha)+chi(beta)) whenever gintextGL2(k) has eigenvalues alpha,betainellbackslashk. (This is somewhere in Fulton and Harris, for instance.)
Inflate tauchi to a representation of textGL2(mathcalOK), and extend this to a representation tautheta of KtimestextGL2(mathcalOK) which agrees with theta on the center. Finally, let pitheta be the induced representation of tautheta up to textGL2(K); then pitheta is an irreducible supercuspidal representation.
By local class field theory, our original character theta can be viewed as a character of the Weil group of L. In the local Langlands correspondence, pitheta lines up with the representation of the Weil group of K induced from theta. All the supercuspidals of textGL2(K) arise by induction from an open compact-mod-center subgroup, but the precise construction of these is a little more subtle than the above example.
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