General overview of the courses SK2400 & SK2401 + Lecture QO1: The Schrödinger equation.  Harmonic oscillator analytically. Hermitian operators. Quadrature operators. Bra, ket. Commutator. Ref. 'PM Dirac formulation.pdf' (cf 'literature' section)

Modes and states. Indistinguishability. Bosonic commutator. Uncertainty principle. Density operator. Harmonic oscillator with operators. Ref. 'PM Dirac formulation.pdf'

Temporal dynamics. Schrödinger and Heisenberg picture. The coherent state. Thermal state, mode density, blackbody radiation. Ref. 'PM Dirac formulation.pdf'

The phase-shifter. Beam-splitter. Photo detector. Interferometer. Ref. 'PM Dirac formulation' (check course 'literature' section). Ref. 'PM Dirac formulation.pdf'

Phase insensitive amplification. Linear loss. Parametric (phase-sensitive) amplification. Ref. 'PM Dirac formulation.pdf'

Analysis of a contemporary experiment: Quantum teleportation, Quantum cryptography, Quantum erasure, Delayed choice, Quantum non-demolition measurement? Literature (research paper & notes) distributed at the lecture

From Maxwell's equations to the Wave Equation. The Helmholtz equation. Monochromatic fields and complex amplitudes. Optical materials: constitutive equations. Lorentz' classical electron model. (Yariv's textbook - Chapter 1: Electromagnetic fields and waves - par. 1.1-1.4 + Chapter 5: Interaction of radiation and atomic systems -par. 5.2-5.4)

Ray optics. Paraxial ray propagation. ABCD formalism. Optical beams. Paraxial wave equation. Gaussian beams: key parametres and propagation. (Yariv's Chapter 2)

Guided modes. Ray picture. Electromagnetic description. Modes of a symmetric slab waveguide. Waveguide mode excitation. Examples of waveguides and fabrication techniques. (Yariv chapter 3)

Modes in optical resonators. Axial and transverse resonances. Resonator losses (Q-factor, photon lifetime). Open resonators and stability condition (Yariv's chapter 4)

3D electromagnetic mode density. Atomic transitions (cross-section and lineshape function). Homogeneous and inhomogeneous line broadening.Spontaneous emission, stimulated emission and absorption rates. Optical amplification. (Yariv's chapter 5)