1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	15
Exercises	15

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

1) Atom-light interaction. Semi-classical theory, two-level atom and Rabi oscillations. Stimulated emission and laser. Jaynes-Cummings model and Weisskopf-Wigner theory of spontaneous emission. Dark states and electromagnetically induced transparency.
2) Quantum theory of damping. Interaction with a thermal reservoar in the Markovian white-noise approximation. Master equation for the density operator. Heisenberg-Langevin formalism.
3) Resonant fluorescence. Theory of a spectrum analyzer. Quantum regression theorem. Photonic antibunching and non-classical states of light.

1. M.O. Scully, M.S. Zubairy, Quantum Optics, University Press, Cambridge (1997).
2. P. Meystre, M. Sargent III, Elements of Quantum Optics, 4th Edition, Springer, Berlin (2007).
3. G. Grynberg, A. Aspect, C. Fabre, Introduction to Quantum Optics, University Press, Cambridge (2010).