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Atomic and Optical Physics I

Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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About

This is the first of a two-semester subject sequence that provides the foundations for contemporary research in selected areas of atomic and optical physics. Topics covered include the interaction of radiation with atoms: resonance; absorption, stimulated and spontaneous emission; methods of resonance, dressed atom formalism, masers and lasers, cavity quantum electrodynamics; structure of simple atoms, behavior in very strong fields; fundamental tests: time reversal, parity violations, Bell’s inequalities; and experimental methods.

Lectures

Video Lectures

  1. Lecture 1: Resonance I 1 h 15 min · Video
  2. Lecture 2: Resonance II 1 h 19 min · Video
  3. Lecture 3: Resonance III 1 h 22 min · Video
  4. Lecture 4: Resonance IV 1 h 20 min · Video
  5. Lecture 5: Resonance V and Atoms I 1 h 22 min · Video
  6. Lecture 6: Atoms II 1 h 26 min · Video
  7. Lecture 7: Atoms III 1 h 26 min · Video
  8. Lecture 8: Atoms IV 1 h 22 min · Video
  9. Lecture 9: Atoms V and Atoms in External Fields I 1 h 22 min · Video
  10. Lecture 10: Atoms in External Fields II 1 h 20 min · Video
  11. Lecture 11: Atoms in External Fields III 1 h 26 min · Video
  12. Lecture 12: Atoms in External Fields IV and Atom-light Interactions I 1 h 22 min · Video
  13. Lecture 13: Atom-light Interactions II 1 h 25 min · Video
  14. Lecture 14: Atom-light Interactions III 1 h 23 min · Video
  15. Lecture 15: Atom-light Interactions IV 1 h 18 min · Video
  16. Lecture 16: Atom-light Interactions V 1 h 5 min · Video
  17. Lecture 17: Atom-light Interactions VI and Line Broadening I 1 h 21 min · Video
  18. Lecture 18: Line Broadening II 1 h 24 min · Video
  19. Lecture19: Line Broadening III 1 h 21 min · Video
  20. Lecture 20: Line Broadening IV and Two-photon Excitation I 1 h 17 min · Video
  21. Lecture 21: Two-photon Excitation II and Coherence I 1 h 23 min · Video
  22. Lecture 22: Coherence II 1 h 22 min · Video
  23. Lecture 23: Coherence III 1 h 21 min · Video
  24. Lecture 24: Coherence IV 1 h 19 min · Video
  25. Lecture 25: Coherence V 1 h 27 min · Video

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Credits and licence

Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department
Physics
Teacher
Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle
Term
Spring 2014
Level
Graduate
Language
English
Subjects
Physics, Biology
Source
MIT OpenCourseWare
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as MIT OpenCourseWare states it. Non-commercial use only. MIT OpenCourseWare's terms
Attribution
Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle. Atomic and Optical Physics I. Spring 2014. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu/. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
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