This course covers a broad range of topics that are of current interest in the field of quantum optics. Quantum optics is an enabling field in that the concepts find there way into many modern optical instruments. Topics include atom-radiation interactions, photon statistics, photon antibunching, coherent states and squeezed light, photon number states, atoms in cavities, ultra-cold atoms, quantum cyrptography, quantum computing, engangles states and quantum teleportation.

Textbook: Quantum Optics: An Introduction by Mark Fox (paperback 2007 printing - with corrections) Oxford University Press ISBN 0198566735

Assignments: Approximately weekly homework assignments.

Grading: Grade to be based on class participation and problem sets.