Course Identification

Quantum Electronics
20151162

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Prof. Nir Davidson
Dr. Noam Matzliah

Course Schedule and Location

2015
Second Semester
Sunday, 14:15 - 16:00, Weissman, Auditorium
Tuesday, 11:15 - 13:00, Weissman, Auditorium
22/03/2015

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Physical Sciences: Lecture; Elective; 4.00 points
Chemical Sciences: Lecture; Elective; 4.00 points

Comments

N/A

Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

No

Language of Instruction

English

Registration by

05/04/2015

Attendance and participation

Required in at least 80% of the lectures

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

50%
50%

Evaluation Type

Examination

Scheduled date 1

05/08/2015
Weissman, Seminar Rm A
0900-1300
N/A

Scheduled date 2

N/A
N/A
-
N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

N/A

Syllabus

1.      Introduction

 

2.      Review

                       · Coherent Rabi-Oscillations of 2-level atom, dressed states

                       ·      Second quantization of the EM field

                       ·      Black body radiation, semi classical treatment of stimulated emission

 

3.      Coupling to vacuum

                       · Spontaneous emission, Fluorescence spectroscopy

                       · Quantum jumps

 

4.      Interaction of light and 2-level atom

                       · Optical Bloch equations, decoherence and dephasing

                       · Rabi and Ramsey and echo spectroscopy

                       ·      Saturation spectroscopy

                       ·      Propagation effects: Bloch-Maxwell equations

 

5.      Principles of laser operation

                       · Rate equations, power in laser operation

                       · Specific laser systems

 

6.      Laser cooling and trapping

                       · Radiation pressure and dipole forces

                       · Cooling and heating forces, laser cooling

                       ·      Optical dipole traps

 

7.      Multi-level atoms

                       · Cooling and trapping of multi-level atoms

                       · Dark states – stimulated rapid adiabatic passage (STIRAP)

                       · Electromagnetically induced transparency, slow light

 

8.      Interaction of light with many atoms

                       · Dickie super radiance

                       · Bose-Einstein condensation

                       · Wave-mixing of light and coherent matter-waves

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:

[1] Demonstate knowledge of the physics of photon atom interaction both in a semi classic and quantum framework.

[2] Explain the principles of laser operation, laser cooling and trapping of atoms, slow light and laser spectroscopy.

[3] Apply the methods used in the course (e.g. exact diagonalization, dressed states, Master equations, Focker Planck and Langevin approach), to many other systems in optics, atomic and condensed matter physics.

Reading List

1.         Amnon Yariv, Quantum Electronics (reserved shelf).

2.         Cohen-Tannoudji, Dupont-Roc, & Grynberg: Photons, Atom-Photon Interactions. (reserved shelf).

3.         P. Meystre, and M. Sargent III, Elements of Quantum Optics (reserved shelf).

4.         Harold J. Metcalf, Laser Cooling and Trapping (reserved shelf).

5.         R. Loudon, Quantum Theory of Light (reserved shelf).

6.         C. Cohen-Tannoudji, Atomic Motion in Laser Light, in Fundamental systems in quantum optics,

            Les Houches 1990 pp. 1-161 (PDF file available from me).

7.            M. Greiner and M. Lukin lecture notes (PDF file available from me).

Website

N/A