Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova

Modern Optics 3: Quantum Optics Course ID:834 is a education podcast hosted by Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova. It has 11 episodes, with the latest published January 2020.

Contents: 1. Basic concepts of statistical optics 2. Spatial and temporal coherence. Coherent modes, photon number per mode 3. Intensity fluctuations and Hanbury Brown and Twiss experiment 4. Interaction between atom and light (semiclassical description) 5. Quantization of the electromagnetic field 6. Quantum operators and quantum states 7. Heisenberg and Schrödinger pictures 8. Polarization in quantum optics 9. Nonlinear optical effects for producing nonclassical light 10. Parametric down-conversion and four-wave mixing, biphotons, squeezed light 11. Single-photon states and single-photon emitters 12. Entanglement and Bell’s inequality violation

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