ECE 69500 - Coherent Optics and Quantum Electronics
Course Details
Lecture Hours: 3 Credits: 3
Counts as:
Experimental Course Offered:
Spring 2011, Spring 2014
Requisites by Topic:
Quantum Physics at the 50000 level
Catalog Description:
Recent experimental and theoretical developments in quantum optics emphasizing concepts of coherence. Fourier optics, and the quantum theory of radiation. Applications to optical trapping, laser cooling, cavity QED and squeezed light.
Required Text(s):
- Introductory Quantum Optics , C.C. Gerry and P. L. Knight , Cambridge University Press , 2005 , ISBN No. 0521820359
Recommended Text(s):
- Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics , Mandel and Wolf
- Quantum Optics , Scully
- The Quantum Theory of Light , Loudon
Lecture Outline:
| Hours | Major Topics |
|---|---|
| 3 | Single-Photon Optics |
| 2 | Field Quantization |
| 3 | Coherent States |
| 2 | Quantum Coherence |
| 4 | Squeezed Light |
| 4 | Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Information |
| 5 | Atom-Photon Interaction |
| 4 | Cavity QED |
| 5 | Laser Cooling |
| 5 | DeBroglie Atom Optics |
| 5 | Bose-Einstein Condensation |