Online Courses Handbook 2003

302747 (v.1) Quantum Optics 401

Area:	Department of Applied Physics
Contact Hours:	2.0
Credits:	12.5
Lecture:	2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Other Requisite(s):	Admission: to the Physics honours program
Selected topics from - Resonant optical cavities, transverse and longitudinal mode structure, cavity gain, loss processes, resonators, cavity Q and intracavity elements, the density operator and laser line widths, spectroscopy of solid state laser materials, R-S coupling and selection rules in crystalline fields, rotation groups and crystal point groups, optical detection of coherent beams.