ECE 5310 Quantum Optics for Photonics

ECE 5310 Contents

Syllabus and Course Details
Lecture Notes and Handouts
Homework and Exams

Note: Projects and Labs are not available for this course.

Course Description

This is a graduate level course on quantum optics.

Topics covered include density matrices, semi-classical light matter interactions, Rabi oscillations, electromagnetically induced transparency and interference effects, quantization of fields in cavity and free space, properties of photons, field commutation relations, number states, coherent states, quadrature and amplitude-phase squeezed states, vacuum fluctuations, matter-photon interactions, stimulated and spontaneous emission processes, classical/quantum descriptions of photon detection, coherent homodyne and heterodyne detection, coherence functions, cavity quantum optics and microcavity effects in spontaneous emission, cavity quantum optics in strong coupling and weak coupling limits, generation of quantum states of light, phase sensitive and phase insensitive optical amplifiers, parametric amplifiers, fundamental performance limits of optical amplifiers, photon statistics and characteristic functions, laser oscillators, number and phase characteristics of laser light, parametric oscillators and squeezing, quantum opto-mechanics, opto-mechanical cooling and squeezing, noise penalty in simultaneous detection of two non-commuting field quadratures, bit error rates in optical communication systems, classical and quantum information and information carrying capacity of quantum states of light.

Instructor(s)

Farhan Rana
316 Phillips Hall Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: 607-255-6317
Email: farhan.rana at cornell.edu

Course Level

Graduate

As Offered In

Fall 2013

Required Text(s)

None.

Course Structure

The course consists of:

  1. Three weekly lectures
  2. One midterm exam and one final exam.
A green laser
Light solitons in Yb-doped fiber lasers
Quantum states of light
Characters Alice and Bob