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Fundamentals of Photonics: Quantum Electronics

Graduate · Historical course

Spring 2006

This course explores the fundamentals of optical and optoelectronic phenomena and devices based on classical and quantum properties of radiation and matter culminating in lasers and applications. Fundamentals include: Maxwell's electromagnetic waves, resonators and beams, classical ray optics and optical systems, quantum theory of light, matter and its interaction, classical and quantum noise, lasers and laser dynamics, continuous wave and short pulse generation, light modulation; examples from integrated optics and semiconductor optoelectronics and nonlinear optics.

Readings

  • Saleh, B. E. A., and M. C. Teich. Fundamentals of Photonics . New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, 1991. ISBN: 0471839655.
    Recommended
  • Hecht, E., and A. Zajac. Optics . 3rd ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997. ISBN: 0201838877.
    Recommended
  • Griffiths, D. Introduction to Quantum Mechanics . 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995. ISBN: 0131118927.
    Recommended
  • Cohen-Tannoudji, C., B. Diu, and F. Laloe. Quantum Mechanics I . New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, 1992. ISBN: 0471569526.
    Recommended
  • Yariv, A. Optical Electronics in Modern Communications . 5th ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0195106261.
    Listed reading
  • Svelto, O. Principles of Lasers . New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 2004. ISBN: 0306457482.
    Listed reading
  • Haus, H. A. Waves and Fields in Optoelectronics . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1983. ISBN: 0139460535.
    Listed reading
  • Allen, L., and J. H. Eberly. Optical Resonance and Two-Level Atoms . New ed. New York, NY: Dover, 1987. ISBN: 0486655334.
    Listed reading
  • Liu, Jia-Ming. Photonic Devices _._ Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0521551951.
    Listed reading
  • Meystre, P., and M. Sargent, III. Elements of Quantum Optics . 3rd ed. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 1986. ISBN: 354064220X.
    Listed reading
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