QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

3 credits.

Elementary aspects of Lagrange theory of fields and field quantization; Bose, Fermi and Pauli operators; interaction of fields; quantum theory of damping and fluctuations; applications to lasers, nonlinear optics, and quantum optics. Knowledge of lasers [such as PHYSICS 546] and graduate-level electromagnetics [such as E C E 740 or PHYSICS 721 ] strongly encouraged.