Course Description: Introduction to quantum mechanics; physics of the interaction of light with atoms; introduction to quantum optics; fundamentals principles of lasers; introduction to nonlinear optics.

Course Objectives: To familiarize students with how light interacts with matter on an atomic scale.

Course Outline by Topical Areas:

Introduction to quantum mechanics, wave/particle duality, uncertainty principle

Quantum mechanics of free and bound particles, wave packets

Schrödinger equation, wave functions, eigenvalue equations

Measurements in quantum mechanics, expectation values

Hydrogen atom, quantum mechanics of the real hydrogen atom

Dirac notation, matrix formulation of quantum mechanics

Spin angular momentum, Pauli exclusion principle

Electric dipole approximation, Rotating wave approximation

Two-level atom approximation, Rabi oscillations

Collisional decay and spontaneous emission, rate equations

Blackbody radiation, Einstein A and B coefficients

Inhomogeneous line broadening, absorption lineshapes

Quantization of the electromagnetic field, vacuum field fluctuations

Optical resonators, resonator stability

Population inversion

Threshold gain and steady-state laser operation

Laser output characteristics and output control

Pulsed lasers, Q-switching, mode locking

Perturbational nonlinear optics, harmonic generation, phase matching

Self-phase modulation and self-focusing

Pockel and Kerr effects, electro-optic modulation

Course Requirements:

Homework: Weekly

Examinations: Two midterms and final

Computer Language: None

Computer Facilities: None

Laboratory: None

Project: None

Course web site: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/opt511/

Degree Applicability:

CE[AA]	CH[NA]	CS[AA]	EE[BDE]	EM[E]	ESM[NA]	MAT[E]
MBA[NA]	ME[E]	MES[BE]	MSE[E]	SE[NA]	SY[AA]

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NTU Semester Credit Hours: 3
Number of Lecture Hours: 30 (75 minute) lectures
Days Class Meets on Campus: Tuesday/Thursday

Contributing Scholar:
Brian P. Anderson
Optical Sciences Center, Department of Physics
University of Arizona
Meinel Building, 1630 East University Boulevard
Tucson, AZ   85721
Phone: 520-626-5825

brian.anderson@optics.arizona.edu

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Academic/Administrative Contact:  
Ms. Cindy Robertson
Phone: 520-621-5874
Fax: 520-621-5143
cindyr@email.arizona.edu


Prerequisites: Calculus and differential equations; Familiarity with vectors, matrices, eigenvalue equations, and Fourier transforms; Wave equation and complex representation of EM waves; Lorentz oscillator model, absorption and refractive index.

Textbooks: (Order Materials)

1.	Recommended-Not Required: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, D. Griffiths, Prentice Hall, 1995.
2.	Recommended set of Lecture notes by R. Shoemaker, available at University of Arizona bookstore.