Physics 721

Atomic and Optical Physics - Fall 2005

Instructors:  W. Phillips and T. Porto
Class location: 1201 Physics, Tu-Th 10:30 - 11:45 AM

Syllabus

EXTRA CREDIT Submission Instructions Due Monday, December 19, 2005

 

Lecture Notes

 

Date

Topic

Notes

 Sept. 1

Introduction and review of classical E&M

 Lecture #1

 Sept. 6

Quantization of EM Fields  (Homework #1 Due Thurs.  Sept. 15)

 Lecture #2

 Sept. 8

Fermi’s Golden Rule (notes include Einstein A&B coefficients, discussed on Sept. 13)

 Lecture #3

 Sept. 13

Multipole expansion of H, deriv. of Einstein A,B

(Homework #2 Due Thurs. Sept.  22 HW2 correction)  HW2 solution.

 Lecture #4

 Sept. 15

Derivation of spont. emission, stim. emission for 2-level atoms, steady state populations, scat. rates.

 Lecture #5

 Sept. 20

Coupled two-level problem, Rabi oscillations.  (Homework #3)  HW3 solution.

 Lecture #6

 Sept. 23

Density matrices review.

 Lecture #7

 Sept. 27

Optical Bloch equations. (Homework #4 HW4 correction)   (Mathematica example from class) HW4 solution

 Lecture #8

 Sept. 29

Atomic Structure

 Lecture #9

 Oct. 4

Atomic Structure (Homework #5 Due Thurs. Oct 13)  HW5 solution

 Lecture #10

 Oct. 6

Wigner Eckart theorem, Hyperfine structure.

 Lecture #11

 Oct. 11

Dressed Atoms  (Homework #6 Due Thurs. Oct 20)  HW6 solution

 Lecture #12

 Oct. 13

Selections rules, application of 6-j symbols.  (Mathematica example)

 Lecture #13

 Oct. 18

Optical Forces on atoms - density matrix approach

 Lecture #14

 Oct.  20

Optical Forces on atoms -  continued  (Homework #7 Due Thurs. Nov 3)  HW7 solution

 Lecture #15

 Oct. 25

Dipole Force- continued

 Lecture #16

 Oct. 27

Resonance Flourescence

 Lecture #17

 Nov. 1

Zeeman effect  (Mathematica example from class)

 Lecture #18

 Nov. 3

Stark effect and 2005 Nobel Prize in physics,  Femto-second frequency combs

 Lecture #19

 Nov. 8

(MID TERM EXAM Due Tuesday Nov. 15th)  (midterm CLARIFICATIONS)  (midterm LATE POLICY) (STATISTICS)

SOLUTIONS

 Nov. 8

Laser Cooling and Optical Molasses (Doppler Cooling)

Lecture #20

 Nov. 10

Laser Cooling and Heating continued

Lecture #21

 Nov. 15

Classical Theory of coherence, first and second order correlation functions

Lecture #22

 Nov. 17

Quantum theory of photo-detections, quantum coherence

Lecture #23

 Nov. 22

Single-mode quantum states, correlations.  Hong-Ou-Mandel experiments (Homework #8 Due Tues. Dec. 6) 

HW8 solution

Lecture #24

 Nov. 29

Some Quantum Optics experiments

 

 Dec. 1

 Leftover points from the exam

 Lecture #26

 Dec.  6

Optical Pumping; Sub-doppler laser cooling Homework #9 Due Tues. Dec. 13  HW9 solution

 Lecture #27

 Dec. 8

 Sub-doppler laser cooling continued

 Lecture #28

 Dec. 13

 Coherent Population Trapping

 Lecture #29

 Dec. 15

 Bose-Einstein Condensation and Coherent Atom Optics with Laser-like Atom Waves

 Lecture #30

EXTRA CREDIT Submission Instructions Due Monday, December 19, 2005


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