Course Identification

Title:

Quantum Electronics

Code:

20161082

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Prof. Ofer Firstenberg, Prof. Roee Ozeri, Prof. Barak Dayan, Prof. Nir Davidson

TA's:

Dr. Ohr Lahad, Dr. Ran Finkelstein

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2016

Semester:

Second Semester

When / Where:

Sunday, 14:15 - 16:00, Weissman, Auditorium
Tuesday, 14:15 - 16:00, Drori Auditorium

First Lecture:

13/03/2016

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

Participants:

99

Language of Instruction

English

Registration by

Registration By:17/03/2016

Attendance and participation

Required in at least 80% of the lectures

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Assignments:

50%

Final:

50%

Evaluation Type

Examination

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

31/07/2016

Location

Weissman, Seminar Rm A

Time

0900-1300

Remarks

N/A

Scheduled date 2

Date / due date

N/A

Location

N/A

Time

-

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

2.5

Syllabus

1. Introduction

2. Review

· Coherent Rabi-oscillations of 2-level atoms, 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 Rydberg atoms

· Rydberg blockade

· Nonlinear optical response on the few-photon level

Learning Outcomes

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

[1] Demonstrate knowledge of the physics of photon-atom interaction both in a semi-classic and quantum frameworks.

[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

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