141.A11 Quantum Optics II
This course is in all assigned curricula part of the STEOP.
This course is in at least 1 assigned curriculum part of the STEOP.

2020S, VO, 2.0h, 3.0EC

TUWEL course

Properties

Semester hours: 2.0
Credits: 3.0
Type: VO Lecture

Learning outcomes

After successful completion of the course, students are able to model propagation effects, to describe the evolution of open quantum systems using master equations, to analyse laser cooling schemes for trapped atoms, to explain photo detection processes, optical coherence and photon-photon correlations as well as to analyse the generation and application of non-classical light using non-linear crystals.

Subject of course

Topics:
(1) Electromagnetically induced transparency, slow light and quantum memories for light; (2) The master equation and its applications; (3) Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms and ions: Doppler- Sisyphus-cooling; optical traps; (4) Photodetection: coherence, photon-photon correlations, correlation functions; (5) Sources of non-classical light: entangled photon pairs, squeezed light, test of quantum mechanics (Bell's inequalities);