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About the Course

This course gives you access to basic tools and concepts to understand research articles and books on modern quantum optics. You will learn about quantization of light, formalism to describe quantum states of light without any classical analogue, and observables allowing one to demonstrate typical quantum properties of these states. These tools will be applied to the emblematic case of a one-photon wave packet, which behaves both as a particle and a wave. Wave-particle duality is a great quantum mystery in the words of Richard Feynman. You will be able to fully appreciate real experiments demonstrating wave-particle duality for a single photon, and applications to quantum technologies based on single photon sources, which are now commercially available. The tools presented in this course will be widely used in our second quantum optics course, which will present more advanced topics such as entanglement, interaction of quantized light with matter, squeezed light, etc... So if you have a good knowledge in basic quantum mechanics and classical electromagnetism, but always wanted to know: • how to go from classical electromagnetism to quantized radiation, • how the concept of photon emerges, • how a unified formalism is able to describe apparently contradictory behaviors observed in quantum optics labs, • how creative physicists and engineers have invented totally new technologies based on quantum properties of light, then this course is for you....

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CW

Nov 10, 2020

This was an awesome course. I recommend it to all who are working with Quantum physics, Quantum mechanics, Quantum Optics, Quantum Computing and Information Science, Quantum Communication

AT

Feb 7, 2024

Thank you so much. This learning platform helps students like me who have financial and educational hardships to develop their knowledge! Thank you again.

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By Vishnu R V K

Mar 27, 2019

i learned so much from this subject

By David A I T

Jan 4, 2021

Instructor is really good!

By Stefano V

Mar 13, 2021

Extremely interesting

By Shrinivas J

Aug 2, 2020

Brilliant course!

By Thiago V

Jun 5, 2020

GREAT COURSE!!!!

By Felipe V

Jun 28, 2019

Incredible alain

By simon s

Oct 21, 2020

Fantastique!!!

By EDGAR A T R

May 30, 2022

hermoso curso

By Deleted A

Apr 30, 2020

Nice Teaching

By Daniel V d R J

Nov 9, 2020

Ótimo curso.

By ELMER M P

Nov 12, 2021

thank you

By MARAKA D R 1

Mar 27, 2019

nice

By Sina D

May 9, 2023

Was very good course I liked it so much and it was definitely benefit for me as i needed this lesson to begin calculation in Quantum optics and understanding better Quantum optics as i come from Micro-Nano Electronic Engineer - photonic Space. Thanks to all Professors and Organisiers who made this possible and had kindness for me as Science has no boundary and spread of it is Great Quest. I have one suggestion Though as I too endeavor in this field for better understanding and progress of the field with limited sources available unfortunately, I suggest that specially homeworks need little corrections and again reviewing the solutions and also some parts of course videos which may have typos which for example can be hurdle in way of understanding for Engineers like me, any way one of best courses i have passed, i thank who have helped this project best hopes for them and i suggest more quantum optical courses as this field had Nobel last year and we should focus more on world scale in this Dream of Humanity, Physics, Engineering and Mathematics.

By Jing H

Jul 23, 2020

A very good introductory course for quantum optics. But there are two things I am not so satisfied: first, there is some typo in the video, and it would be better if the professors can add a part for the correction, just like in the last video section of the week 1. Second, for some attached documents (papers), I couldn’t get the access to them since I don’t have an account for those scientific paper websites. So even though the prof highly recommended me to read them, I couldn’t.

All in all, it’s a good introductory course.

By Bas A

Aug 20, 2017

More exact usage of English language would help. Also written course material would be great. I ended up buying Mr. Aspect's book because I like the topic so much. A final exam would give a more satisfying feeling. I have the feeling I muddled through on lots of the questions. I am redoing the course now to get "perfect" understanding an memorizing things. Alternatively, a final test could be to write a reaction about a resent article.

By JOSE M A E

Dec 12, 2020

The course is really very good. Prof. Aspect exceeds his pedagogic skill and makes the lecture listening delightful. The course focuses in a few concepts that develops step by step to reach a deepper insight.

In my opinion the homework part can be improved. In some cases the statements in the homework are confusing and it is not clear the goal and what the questions ask for

By PHILIPPE C

May 17, 2020

Tres interessant car abordant des questions théoriques et pratiques a la frontière de l'optique quantique. Le cours est toutefois un peu trop dense et mériterait d'être plus aéré en détaillant les étapes intermédiaires du raisonnement et du calcul

By José F P B

May 8, 2022

Excellent course! Prof. Aspect gives a clear and very interesting introduction to Quantum Optics. Nonetheless, there are more than a few typos in the slices and the homework instructions.

By Giacomo V

Dec 5, 2019

Really good course, but you need to have a strong background in quantum mechanics in order to understand the lessons. Professor Aspect clearly explains the topics

By Abanoub M S M

Apr 16, 2020

The concepts are made clear as well as the calculations. The wave particle duality is made clear along with a quite long discussion.

By Manuel S

Mar 10, 2018

There should be more resources to study like some lecture notes. Besides that, the overall level is very good.

By Jonathan G

Mar 23, 2018

It's math I put surprisingly easy.

By Richard D

Dec 24, 2020

I recommend that you obtain an independent review of the homework on this course, specifically to address the questions of whether the course prepares learners for the homework, and whether the questions are are clear to learners. I find that the answers to these questions are NO for weeks 4 and 5. In week 5, for example, question 1(1) asks about a single state |phi-f> which is not defined in the question or in the introduction to the homework or in the lectures. Questions 1(2-5) use a technique that has not been taught in the lectures and is not always part of an undergraduate course in QM. This kind of thing can be extremely disappointing for learners, and frankly implies that the setter of the questions was not actually competent to do so.

By Rod B

Apr 30, 2017

Poor. Very boring and dull presentation. Hardly anything is explained very clearly. It would be far more profitable to simply study an appropriate textbook or online course notes.