PHYSICS 726: Q.O.I. Rotation

Fall 2005, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park

Credits 2

Prerequisites for Graduate Students: none.

Prerequisite for Undergraduate students: senior standing and approval of faculty responsible for the course.

Faculty responsible for the course: Luis A. Orozco, Physics 2127, (301) 405 9740 lorozco@umd.edu

The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the research groups carrying out research on quantum optical information in the Physics Department. The students spend half of a semester working with one of the active groups in the physics department that are involved with quantum information using optics. They should plan to be at the laboratory at least three hours a week. At the end of each rotation they make a public presentation (ten minutes maximum, APS format) and prepare a web page with their results.

This semester there may be possible experimental and/or theoretical projects with:

Steven L. Rolston rolston@umd.edu ,

Wendell Hill, wth@ipst.umd.edu , 

Luis A. Orozco  lorozco@umd.edu ,

Bei-Lok Hu hub@physics.umd.edu

Schedule:

September 2. Organizational meeting where the professors present different projects to the students.

September 7. Last day to send Luis Orozco e-mail by with the information on the first optics rotation, first rotation starts.

October 12.  Last date to send Luis Orozco an e-mail about where your second rotation will take place.

October 19. Second rotation starts.

November 2. First rotation presentation and web page due (this is after you have started your second rotation).

December 2. Second rotation ends.

December 9. Second rotation presentation and web page due.

 

Web pages for first rotation:

 

Ryan Clary QOI Camera

Brad Conrad QOI Fabry Perot

David Norris QOI Laser pointing stability

 

Web pages for second rotation:

 

Ryan Clary Laser Spatial Stability

Brad Conrad QOI Camera 2

David Norris Diode Laser Locking

 

Last updated by L. A. Orozco on December 9, 2005