Quantum Optics: Online Courses, Books, Lectures and other useful and interesting resources.

Without any especial introduction I want to start with this Inspiring Quotes by Wolfgang Ketterle (Physics Nobel Prize Laureate 2001 and one of the instructors of Online courses) “When you understand phenomena in atomic and optical physics you obtain a deeper understanding for quantum physics or you can say a deeper understanding for the world.”

We should keep in mind that some phenomena such as Spontaneous Emission, Casimir Effect and Lamb Shift, can not be describe without fully quantum mechanical description of light and matter and their interaction, we need also new notion like vacuum fluctuations of electromagnetic field to understand these processes.

Source: http://yagura.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index-e.html

Online Courses & MOOCs

1. Atomic and Optical Physics I , Instructor: Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle, 2014 (Link MIT) or (Link Edx)
2. Atomic and Optical Physics II , Instructor: Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle ,2014 (Link MIT) or (Link Edx)
3. Introduction to Quantum Optics (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)) by Immanuel Bloch & Simon Foelling (Link1) or (Link2)
4. Quantum Optics 1 — Single Photons, Instructors: Professor Alain Aspect & Michel Brune (Link)
5. Quantum Optics 2 — Two photons and more Instructors: Professor Alain Aspect & Michel Brune (Link)
6. Quantum Optics Physics 566 Fall 2010 University of New Mexico Instructor: Prof. Ivan H. Deutsch (Link)
7. Quantum Optics II Physics 581 Fall 2014 University of New Mexico Instructor: Prof. Ivan H. Deutsch (Link)
8. QUANTUM THEORY OF LIGHT by Prof. Ebrahim Karimi 13 Video Lectures + Lecture Notes (Link)
9. Quantum Optics (Sharif University) — Sadegh Raeisi — - These Lectures are in Farsi (Link)

This photo is related to course 1&2. Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle scientific great great grandfathers! Source: https://www.edx.org/course/atomic-and-optical-physics-quantum-states-and-dyna

This is photo is related to course 6&7. Map of Quantum Optics. Source : http://info.phys.unm.edu/~ideutsch/Classes/Phys566F10/index.htm

Books

1. Introduction to Optics (Classical Approach for learning basic concept) by Frank L Pedrotti, Leno M Pedrotti, Leno S Pedrotti, 3rd Revised ed. edition (2017)
2. Quantum Optics by Marlan O. Scully, M. Suhail Zubairy (1997)
3. Introductory Quantum Optics by Christopher Gerry & Peter Knight (2004)
4. Quantum Optics: An Introduction by Mark Fox (2006)
5. Introduction to Quantum Optics (From the Semi-classical Approach to Quantized Light) by Gilbert Grynberg & Claude Fabre & Alain Aspect (2010)
6. A Guide to Experiments in Quantum Optics by Hans-A. Bachor, Timothy C. Ralph 3rd Edition (2019)
7. An Introduction to Quantum Optics: An Open Systems Approach by Perry Rice (2020)
8. QUANTUM WORLD OF ULTRA-COLD ATOMS AND LIGHT, THE-BOOK I: FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM OPTICS by Peter Zoller & Crispin Gardiner (2014)
9. The Quantum World of Ultra-Cold Atoms and Light Book II: The Physics of Quantum-Optical Devices by Peter Zoller & Crispin Gardiner (2015)

Video Lectures & Interviews

1. Introduction to quantum optics by Peter Zoller -2018 (4 Lectures), Introduction to quantum optics from the perspective of control and measurement,(link)
2. Quantum optics & optical cavities Michel Brune 2019 (5 Lectures) (Link)
3. Quantum Mechanics I, by by Prof. S. Lakshmi Bala, It’s a course about Quantum Mechanics but you can find interesting lectures about Introducing Quantum Optics, The Coherent State, The Displacement and Squeezing Operators (Link)
4. landmarks in quantum optics by Alain Aspect (Link)
5. Roy J. Glauber (Physics Nobel Prize Laureate 2005), One Hundred Years of Light Quanta (Link)
6. What is Quantum Optics? ROY GLAUBER (Link)
7. Quantum Optics, Roy Glauber on light, quantum coherence, and development of the laser (Link)
8. William D. Phillips: Quantum optics, laser cooling, and the joy of science outreach (Physics Nobel Prize Laureate 1997) (Link)
9. Quantum Optics, Pittsburgh Quantum Institute(2020): Andrew Daley (UStrathclyde), “Reaching practical quantum advantage in quantum simulation”,Dan Stamper-Kurn “Using Light to Measure and Control Quantum Systems” Tom Purd, “The Quantum Optical Level” (Link)
10. World Quantum Day — Alain Aspect, From Einstein to Wheeler: Wave-Particle duality of a single photon (2020) - (Link)

Software and Other sources

Quantum Lab: it is a simulation and visualization of quantum information and computing by Quantum Flytrap. It is a direct successor of the Quantum Game with Photons : (Link)

VQOL : Virtual Quantum Optics Laboratory (Link)

Source: https://lab.quantumflytrap.com/lab/mach-zehnder

QuTiP (Quantum Toolbox in Python): QuTiP is open-source software for simulating the dynamics of open quantum systems with a very comprehensive documentation with many examples Website. you can also find many examples about Quantum Optics which is solved via QuTiP (here)

This list will be updated regularly, if you have a good source and any suggestions let me know to add to this list. Stay tuned!

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