Lecturer
Recommended Reading
“Lectures Notes: Introduction to Quantum Optics”, by A. T. Georges.
«Quantum Optics», M. O. Scully and M. S. Zubairy (Cambridge, 1997).
«Quantum Optics: An Introduction», M. O. Fox (Oxford, 2006).
Course Description
1. Review of Quantum Mechanics
- Time dependent perturbation theory, two level atom – field interaction, harmonic oscillator, creation and destruction operators.
2. Density Matrix Operator
- Equation of motion, decay of atomic states, electronic polarization, two-photon interaction.
3. Quantization of Electromagnetic Fields
- Coherent states, autocorrelation functions, and coherence properties of EM fields.
4. Interaction of Atoms with Quantized EM Fields
- Second quantization, Wigner-Weisskopf theory of spontaneous emission, quantum beats in fluorescence.
5. Resonance Fluorescence
- Coherent and incoherent scattering, the triplet spectrum under strong excitation, two-time intensity correlation, photon anti-bunching, squeezed states of the field.
