High Precision Measurements for fundamental Physics
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TeachingWe are part of the group of Prof. T. W. Hänsch and located at the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Garching/Germany.  Lecture "Quantum Optics" LMU WS 11/12 Instructed by Thomas Udem Schellingstrasse 4 (H) - H 030 Monday 8:15-9:45 at room N 020 and every second Wednesday 14:15 - 15:45 at room H 030 Topics might be (but may not limited to): 1. Introduction to wave optics 2. Quantization of electromagnetic fields 3. Fock-, Glauber- and thermal states 4. Coherence and correlation functions 5. Squeezed states 6. Two level systems, resonance fluorescence, Rabi-oscillations, dressed states 7. Photonechos, self induced transparency, superradiance 8. Quantum information, teleportation, Bell inequality For students having passed the Vordiplom (>5th semester) or Master course students. Books: 1. Laser Electronics, Verdeyen, Prentice Hall 1989 (for wave optics and laser theory) 2. The Quantum Theory of Light, R. Loudon, Oxford University Press 2000 3. Quantum Optics: An Introduction, Mark Fox, Oxford University Press 2006) 4. Quantum Electronics, A.Yariv, Wiley & Sons 1988 5. Quantum Optics, M.O.Scully & M.S.Zubairy, Cambridge University Press 1997 5. Fundamentals of Photoncs, B.E.A.Saleh & M.C.Teich, Wiley & Sons 1991 7. Quantum Optics, D.F. Walls & G.J. Milburn, Springer 2006 The scriptum as it evolves will be available here. Supporting Material
Exercises "Quantum Optics" LMU WS 11/12 Instructed by Tino Batteiger Schellingstrasse 4 (H) - H 030 every second Wednesday 14:15 - 15:45 Last change February 2nd 2012 |