Quantum optics. 578A, PAB B417

We will meet for first time on Jan. 5 at 10:00, and then we will decide on a
convenient time for lectures.

I will use several books and reviews.
Books L.D. Landau E.M. Lifshitz "Electrodynamics of continuous media",
M. Scully and  Zubairy "Ouantum optics", Siegmann "Theory of Lasers"  may be useful.

Tentative syllabus:

1. Quantum theory of radiation. Quantization of free electromagnetic field. Coherent and squeezed states of the field.  Photon counting and photon statistics.

2. Atom-field interaction. Selection rules, luminescence, and resonance luminescence. Theory
of the line width, Doppler and collision broadening,  Dicke effect of collisional narrowing of the line. 
Photon transport, origin of of emission and adsorption lines n optical spectra of gases, Zeldovich-Syniaev effect in astrophysics.

3. Effects of atomic coherence. Hanle effect, electromagnetically induced transparency.
"Dressed" atoms. Quantum relaxation theory. Quantum optical measurements.

4. Solid state optics. Electron-field interaction. Single particle emission and adsorption
spectra. Selection rules and elements of group theory.  Excitons, polaritons and polarons. Raman, resonance Raman, and Mandelstam-Brillouin scattering. Optical orientation in solids. Photo-voltaic and magneto-optic effects. Solid state photonics. Electron-hole droplets in semiconductors induced by light.

5. Super-radiance, Dicke effect. Theory of lasers.

6. Non-linear optics. Self-focusing, second harmonics generation, strong electromagnetic waves.
Squeezing via nonlinear optical processes.