Topics:
(1) Electromagnetically induced transparency, slow light and quantum memories for light;
(2) Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms and ions: Doppler- and Sisyphus-cooling; optical and magnetic traps, ion traps
(3) Photodetection: coherence, photon-photon correlations, correlation functions;
(4) Sources of non-classical light: entangled photon pairs, squeezed light, test of quantum mechanics (Bell's inequalities);
(5) Selected topics from quantum information processing and communication: e.g. basics of quantum information, quantum-teleportation, quantum-algorithms, quantum-cryptography;
