PHYS 636 QUANTUM OPTICS

Quantization of the EM field. States of the quantized EM field (number states, coherent states, squeezed ztates). Coherence functions & EM field statistics. The Jaynes-Cummings model. Dissipative dynamics of driven two-level atoms. Semiclassical theory of field-atom interaction. The dressed-states approach. Laser theory.