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  Modern Optics 3: Quantum Optics

Lecturer
PD Dr. Maria Chekhova

Details
Vorlesung
2 cred.h, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Wed 10:15 - 11:45, SR 02.779
to 15.3.2018

Fields of study
WF Ph-BA ab 5 (ECTS-Credits: 5)
WF Ph-MA ab 1 (ECTS-Credits: 5)

Contents
Contents:
1. Basic concepts of statistical optics
2. Spatial and temporal coherence. Coherent modes, photon number per mode
3. Intensity fluctuations and Hanbury Brown and Twiss experiment
4. Interaction between atom and light (semiclassical description)
5. Quantization of the electromagnetic field
6. Quantum operators and quantum states
7. Heisenberg and Schrödinger pictures
8. Polarization in quantum optics
9. Nonlinear optical effects for producing nonclassical light
10. Parametric down-conversion and four-wave mixing, biphotons, squeezed light
11. Single-photon states and single-photon emitters
12. Entanglement and Bell’s inequality violation

Additional information

Assigned lectures
UE: Übungen zur Vorlesung "Modern Optics 3: Quantum Optics"
Lecturer: PD Dr. Maria Chekhova
Time and place: Tue 9:00 - 11:00, SR 01.566

Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
Startsemester WS 2017/2018:
Modern Optics 3: Quantum Optics (PW)

Department: Chair of Experimental Physics (Optics)
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