Online Courses Handbook 2003

302748 (v.2) Quantum Optics 402

Area:	Department of Applied Physics
Contact Hours:	4.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	2 x 2 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.

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