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Course Description

This is a graduate level course in quantum optics and quantum electronics with an emphasis on optoelectronics and photonics. Topics covered include density matrices in quantum electronics, coherent and incoherent semi-classical dynamics, Rabi oscillations. quantization of electromagnetic radiation in cavity and free space, properties of radiation fields, number states, coherent states, quadrature and amplitude squeezed states, number-phase uncertainty relation, coherence and coherence functions, vacuum fluctuations, matter-photon interactions, stimulated and spontaneous emission processes, micro cavity effects in spontaneous emission, phase sensitive and phase insensitive optical amplifiers, parametric amplifiers, fundamental noise limits of optical amplifiers, photon statistics and characteristic functions, laser oscillators, number and phase characteristics of laser light, parametric oscillators, classical and quantum descriptions of photon detection, direct detection, coherent homodyne and heterodyne detection, noise penalty in simultaneous detection of two non-commuting field quadratures, bit error rates in optical communication systems, information carrying capacity of photons.

Lecturer

Professor Farhan Rana
316 Phillips Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: 607-255-6317       Fax: 607-245-3508
Email: farhan.rana at cornell.edu