ECE 695E - Coherent Optics and Quantum Electronics
Course Details
Lecture Hours: 3 Credits: 3
Counts as:
Experimental Course Offered:
Fall 2008
Catalog Description:
Recent experimental and theoretical developments in optics emphasizing concepts of coherence. Fourier optics, and the quantum theory of radiation. Applications to lasers and masers, nonlinear optics, holography, and quantum electronics.
Required Text(s):
- Introductory Quantum Optics , C.C. Gerry and P.L. Knight , Cambridge University Press , 2005 , ISBN No. 052152735x
Recommended Text(s):
- The Quantum Theory of Light; Scully, Quantum Optics; Mandel and Wolf, Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics , Loudon
Lecture Outline:
Hours | Principle Topics |
---|---|
3 | Single-Photon Optics |
2 | Field Quantization |
3 | Coherent States |
2 | Quantum Coherence |
4 | Squeezed Light |
4 | Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Information |
5 | Aton-Photon Interaction |
4 | Cavity QED |
5 | Laser Cooling |
5 | DeBroglie Atom Optics |
5 | Bose-Einstein Condensation |
Assessment Method:
none