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PGSQO
Course: Quantum Optics
Department/Abbreviation: SLO/PGSQO
Year: 2021
Guarantee: 'prof. RNDr. Ondřej Haderka, Ph.D.', 'prof. RNDr. Jan Peřina, DrSc.'
Annotation: The goal of the subject is to familiarize the student with advanced methods of quantum statistics and theory of coherence.
Course review:
- Coherent states of optical field and their properties
- Representation of density matrix
- Quasidistributions
- Generating function and photon distribution
- Ordering of field operators
- Squeezed states
- Phase states
- Sub-Poisson states
- Chaotic light
- Laser light and superposition of coherent and chaotic fields
- Heisenberg-Langevin approach
- Schrödinger approach
- Master equation
- Generalized Fokker-Planck equation
- Interaction of radiation with atoms and reservoirs
- Resonance fluorescence
- Generalized superposition of coherent fields and quantum noise
- Photon statistics in nonlinear optical processes (optical parametric processes, Raman and Brillouin scattering, Kerr effect, four-wave mixing, phase conjugation)