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640-408 Quantum Optics and Electronics

Coordinator: Drs A Roberts, C. Scholten, P Hannaford and A. Sidorov

Contact: 24 lectures in the second half of the semester.

Timetable: First semester

Content:

Quantum electrodynamics, modes of cavities, waveguides, and fibres, thermal equilibrium, Nyquist noise, coherent states and squeezed states, optical amplifiers and lasers, characteristics of laser light, non-linear optics, scattering of light, spatial filtering, holography, electro-optic effects and devices, practical photonics.

Assessment:

A 6-hour open book examination (70 per cent), assignments (30 per cent).

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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Science (Volume 4 page 231)

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