Online Courses Handbook 2003

303982 (v.2) Quantum Optics 502

Area:	Department of Applied Physics
Contact Hours:	2.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	2 x 1 Hours Weekly
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.