Theoretical Quantum Optics
Winter Semester 2008/2009
Mondays 10.00 – 12.00 room 3343
The lectures are planned for two semesters. For the first part (WS 08/09), topics include:
- quantisation, coherence properties and representations of the electromagnetic field
- quantum phenomena in nonlinear optics, generation and applications of squeezed light
- stochastic methods, open quantum systems and master equations
- interaction of light with atoms
Prerequisites: Quantum mechanics I (mandatory), Electrodynamics (recommended)
Recommended literature:
- D.F. Walls and G.J. Milburn: Quantum Optics (Springer 1994)
The lectures will mostly follow this book
- M.O. Scully and M.S. Zubairy: Quantum Optics (Cambridge Univ. Press 1997)
A bit more detailed than Walls and Milburn and with more emphasis on experimental applications
- L. Mandel and E. Wolf: Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics (Cambridge 1995)
Very detailed presentation of the coherence properties of the electromagnetic field, also includes atom-photon interactions
- C. Cohen-Tannoudji, J. Dupont-Roc and G. Grynberg: Atom-Photon Interactions (Wiley 1992)
Very detailed presentation of the theory of light-atom interaction