Gerry, Christopher, and Peter Knight, Introductory Quantum Optics Cambridge University Press. 2005.
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Homework | Dropping Lowest One | 25% |
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ADMINISTRIVIA. INTRODUCTION; History, Overview. Lecture Notes 1 - Introduction | 10 | 11 INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM MECHANICS: The Hamiltonian and Shroedinger's Equation. Simple 1-D systems. Energy states and transitions. Matrices. Commutation and uncertainty, Hermition operators and observability. Basic postulates of quantum mechanics. Text Chapter 1. Lecture Notes 1 - Introduction | 12 | 13 | 14 |
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INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM MECHANICS, Continued. | 19 | 20 | 21 |
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Photonics West, San Jose. | 23
INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM MECHANICS, Continued. | 24 | 25
FIELD QUANTIZATION: Maxwell's Equations, Hamiltonian, creation, annihilation, and other operators. Quantization of the field. Single mode, multiple mode, and thermal fields. Text Chapter 2. Lecture Notes 2 - Field Quantization | 26 | 27 | 28 |
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FIELD QUANTIZATION, Continued. | 31 | ||||
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FIELD QUANTIZATION, Continued. HW Due(1) | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
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COHERENT STATES: Poisson distribution. Time evolution, generation and properties of coherent states. Text Chapter 3. Lecture Notes 2 - Introduction | 7 | 8
COHERENT STATES, Continued. | 9 | 10 | 11 |
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COHERENT STATES, Continued. | 14 | 15
Midterm Exam | 16 | 17 | 18 |
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APPLICATIONS: Speckle. Bose-Einstein distribution. Photon-counting experiments, signal-to-noise ratios, speckle imaging. Lecture Notes 4 - Applications of Coherent States | 23 | 24 | 25 |
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COHERENT STATES APPLICATIONS, Continued. | 28 | ||||
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COHERENT STATES APPLICATIONS, Continued. | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
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EMISSION AND ABSORPTION: Atom interactions with clasical and quantized fields. Rabi model, Jaynes-Cummings model. Density of states. Text Chapter 4. Lecture Notes 5 - Emission and Absorption | 14 | 15
EMISSION AND ABSORPTION, Continued. HW Due(2) | 16 | 17 | 18 |
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EMISSION AND ABSORPTION. | 21 | 22
APPLICATIONS: Spectroscopy, fluorescence microscopy multi--photon microscopy, and a little bit about second-harmonic imaging. | 23 | 24 | 25 |
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APPLICATIONS Continued. | 28 | 29
QUANTUM COHERENCE FUNCTIONS: Young's experiment. Hanbury Brown and Twiss. Text Chapter 5. Lecture Notes 7 - Quantum Coherence Functions | 30 | 31 | |
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QUANTUM COHERENCE FUNCTIONS, Continued. | 4 | 5
QUANTUM COHERENCE FUNCTIONS, Continued. | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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BEAMSPLITTERS AND INTERFEROMETERS: Quantum description of beamsplitter. Single-photon interference. coherent-state interferometry. Text Chapter 6. Lecture Notes 8 - Beamsplitters and Interferometers | 11 | 12
BEAMSPLITTERS AND INTERFEROMETERS, Continued. HW Due(3) | 13 | 14 | 15 |
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No Class: Patriots' Day | 18 | 19
SOME APPLICATIONS: Squeezed states, Entangled photons. Lecture Notes 9 - Applications | 20 | 21
Finals Week Begins | 22 |
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Take-Home Final Exam Due, 5:00PM | 27 | 28 | 29 |
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