ECEG398, Quantum Optics Syllabus

ECEG398, Quantum Optics Syllabus

Instructors:


Charles A. DiMarzio
Office: 302 Stearns Building
Lab Location: 334 Egan Research Center
Mail Address: 440 Dana Research Center
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
email: dimarzio @ ece.neu.edu
Phone: +1 617-373-2034
FAX: +1 617-373-7783
Pager: +1 617-865-1901 - The pager doesn't work in the subway, so if I don't answer, try again in 30 minutes.
Anthony J. Devaney
Office: ???? Dana Research Center
Mail Address: 440 Dana Research Center
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
email: a.devaney @ neu.edu
Phone: +1 617-373-5284

Virtual Office Hours:

Many questions can be handled by email. Often the process of trying to send a question through the narrow bandwidth of a typed email helps a student understand exactly what the question is. Likewise, the process of trying to write an answer helps the instructor to be clear in response.

Real Office Hours:

DiMarzio: TBD
Devaney: TBD

Text:

Gerry, Christopher, and Peter Knight, Introductory Quantum Optics Cambridge University Press. 2005.

Notes to be distributed online.

Class Logistics:

Location: TBD
Time: 2:50 to 3:30 PM, Mondays and Wednesdays

Grading:

Exams Higher grade of Midterm and Final 30%
. Lower grade of Midterm and Final 25%
Class Participation . 20%
Homework Dropping Lowest One 25%

Homework Notes

Working together on homework is acceptable, and even encouraged, although we will not accept group submissions. Each individual should submit his or her own narrative discussion of the problem, and thus these should differ considerably, although the underlying equations will be the same. Please list your study partners on the front of each homework set. You need not keep the same group throughout the semester. For problems involving computer work, a group may prepare one program, but each individual must submit a separate narrative description of the work. In this case, include the code in an appendix, and be sure that the names of all group members are included as comments in the first few lines of the code. We strongly suggest that you make your collaboration a true group effort. A round--table discussion of the problems, working on each part together, is more effective than working different problems separately and sharing the results. We also welcome your questions about the homework. After you have made a good effort at a problem without apparent success, send an email with a description of what you have done and we will try to offer some help without giving away the store.

Tentative Schedule: Spring Semester, 2006

January, 2006

January, 2006

January 2006
SundayMondayTuesdayWednesday ThursdayFridaySaturday
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ADMINISTRIVIA. INTRODUCTION; History, Overview.
 Lecture Notes 1 - Introduction
1011
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
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1516
No Class: MLK Holiday
1718
INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM MECHANICS, Continued.
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22
Photonics West, San Jose.
23
INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM MECHANICS, Continued.
2425
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
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FIELD QUANTIZATION, Continued.
31
February 2006
SundayMondayTuesdayWednesday ThursdayFridaySaturday
1
FIELD QUANTIZATION, Continued.
HW Due(1)
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56
COHERENT STATES: Poisson distribution. Time evolution, generation and properties of coherent states.
Text Chapter 3.
 Lecture Notes 2 - Introduction
78
COHERENT STATES, Continued.
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1213
COHERENT STATES, Continued.
1415

Midterm Exam
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1920
No Class: Presidents' Holiday
2122
APPLICATIONS: Speckle. Bose-Einstein distribution. Photon-counting experiments, signal-to-noise ratios, speckle imaging.
 Lecture Notes 4 - Applications of Coherent States
232425
2627
COHERENT STATES APPLICATIONS, Continued.
28
March 2006
SundayMondayTuesdayWednesday ThursdayFridaySaturday
1
COHERENT STATES APPLICATIONS, Continued.
234
56
Spring Break
78
Spring Break
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1213
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
1415
EMISSION AND ABSORPTION, Continued.
HW Due(2)
161718
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OSA, Ft. Lauderdale.
20
EMISSION AND ABSORPTION.
2122
APPLICATIONS: Spectroscopy, fluorescence microscopy multi--photon microscopy, and a little bit about second-harmonic imaging.
232425
2627
APPLICATIONS Continued.
2829
QUANTUM COHERENCE FUNCTIONS: Young's experiment. Hanbury Brown and Twiss.
Text Chapter 5.
 Lecture Notes 7 - Quantum Coherence Functions
3031
April 2006
SundayMondayTuesdayWednesday ThursdayFridaySaturday
1
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QUANTUM COHERENCE FUNCTIONS, Continued.
45
QUANTUM COHERENCE FUNCTIONS, Continued.
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910
BEAMSPLITTERS AND INTERFEROMETERS: Quantum description of beamsplitter. Single-photon interference. coherent-state interferometry.
Text Chapter 6.
 Lecture Notes 8 - Beamsplitters and Interferometers
1112
BEAMSPLITTERS AND INTERFEROMETERS, Continued.
HW Due(3)
131415
1617
No Class: Patriots' Day
1819
SOME APPLICATIONS: Squeezed states, Entangled photons.
 Lecture Notes 9 - Applications
2021
Finals Week Begins
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Take-Home Final Exam Due, 5:00PM
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* I don't know who Mark is either, but I took the calendar software from his website, and he put his birthday there, so who am I to remove it?