Photonics and Quantum Optics I

5 credits

Course, Master's level, 1FA664

Spring 2024 Spring 2024, Uppsala, 33%, On-campus, English

Spring 2024 Spring 2024, Uppsala, 33%, On-campus, English For exchange students

Spring 2025 Spring 2025, Uppsala, 33%, On-campus, English

Spring 2025 Spring 2025, Uppsala, 33%, On-campus, English For exchange students

About the course

Light as waves, beams and photons. The quantisation of free radiation and the Hamiltonian for quantised radiation. Momentum and angular momentum of radiation. Ground states of quantum radiation, vacuum fluctuations, Casimir effect. Single-mode and multi-mode quantum radiation. Squeezed and entangled polarisation states of photons. Quantum information.

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