# MIT 8.421 Atomic and Optical Physics I, Spring 2014

MIT 8.421 Atomic and Optical Physics I, Spring 2014 View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/8-421S14 Instructor: Wolfgang Ketterle 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. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2014
- By: MIT OpenCourseWare
- Genres: Education, Science
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/MIT8.421S14)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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