University of California at Santa Cruz
Baskin School of Engineering
Electrical Engineering Department
EE232: Quantum Electronics
Winter 2005

News

* Project Presentations: Friday March 18, 2:00-5:00pm, Engineering 2 building, room 599.

* Additional class: Friday February 25, 5:00-7:00pm, Engineering 2 building, room 399.

* QUIZ: You should receive an email from Jessica Masters (jmasters@soe.ucsc.edu) giving your login and password by 2/21. If you don't receive this email, please contact Jessica directly. First response is due on 2/24 at 5pm, then you can check other students' answers and submit a second response by 2/28 at 5pm. Please do the quiz in one sitting.

* Check below, several new handouts for the class.

* Additional class: Friday January 21, 5:30-7:30pm, Baskin Engineering building, room 330.

* Quantum Electronics course will emphasis surface enhanced Raman scattering, phonons and nanoscale heat transport in winter 2005.

Instructor:	Ali Shakouri
Office:	253A Baskin Engineering Building
Phone:	(831) 459-3821
email:	ali@soe.ucsc.edu
Lecture:	Eight Acad 252
Office Hours:	Tuesday 4-5pm, Wednesday 3-4pm
Text:	Quantum Electronics, A. Yariv (3rd edition)
Reference Texts:	Lasers, Siegman (2nd Ed.)
Grading Policy:	Final 40%, Project 50%, Online Quiz 10% (tentative)

Tentative Schedule

Lect.	Date	Topic	Reading Assignment	Homework/Project
1	1/5	Course overview, Review quantum mechanics
2	1/10	Schrodinger equation, expectation value, uncertainty principle	1.0-1.2
3	1/12	Harmonic oscillator, matrix properties and transformations	2.2, 3.0-3.3
4	1/19	Matrix formulation of quantum mechanics, operators, Heisenberg equations of motion, perturbation	3.4-3.7, 3.11
5	1/24	Time-dependent perturbation theory, density matrix, Feynman diagrams	3.12-3.17
6	1/26	Radiation/atom interaction, atomic susceptibility, spontaneous and induced transition	8.0-8.3
7	1/31	Coherent interactions, Rabi oscillation	handout on denisty matrix and Rabi oscillations	HW: problems 1.7, 2.3, 3.3, 3.7, 3.13, 3.14 Solution
8	2/2	Nonlinear optics, susceptibility tensor	16.0-16.4
9	2/7	Second-harmonic generation	16.5-16.6
10	2/9	Second-harmonic generation (cont.), heat	18.0-18.3
11	2/14	Lattice vibrations and phonons (acoustic and optical)
12	2/16	Phonon dispersion, Boltzmann transport, thermal conductivity	handout on nanoscale heat transport
13	2/23	Micro and nanoscale heat transport, Third order nonlinearities	handout on spontaneous scattering
14	2/28	Spontaneous and Stimulated Brillouin and Rayleigh Scattering	handout on stimulated Brillouin and Rayleigh scattering
15	3/2	Raman scattering	handout on stimulated Raman scattering
16	3/7	Fano Interference, Electromagnetic induced transparency
17	3/9	Surface enhanced Raman scattering
18	3/14	Blackbody radiation, near field effects
		Final 3/16 at 7:30pm

Course Description

Covers basic theory of light-matter interaction; resonant atomic transitions; density matrix treatment; Rabi oscillation; laser mode-locking, Q-switching; parametric oscillation, stimulated Brillouin and Raman scattering, coherent radiation; and noise in photodetectors and lasers. Prerequisites: EE231 or instructor permission.

Intended audience: Graduate or advanced undergraduate students.

Course Expectations
Learning occurs by the active involvement of the student. The student is expected to come to class prepared to think and learn. To get the most out of this class, you need to read the assigned sections in the textbook and supplemental material before coming to class.

Study Suggestions for Engineering Courses

1) Do the reading before each lecture. Reading assignments are listed in the schedule above.
2) Read with a pencil and paper and try to do all the examples before you read their solutions. This is very valuable.
3) Seriously engage with all the homework/exercise problems, try them all before you work with someone else. There is no substitute for doing lots of problems to learn this material.
4) You need to be able to figure out what you don't understand and then ask your fellow students or the instructor for help if you cannot figure it out on your own.
5) Take notes and review them before lecture.
6) You are encouraged to work in groups and discuss about the homework assignments. However, each has to write his/her own solution and fully understand them

Laboratories
There will be some lab demonstrations in BE162.

Additional Reference Materials

Online Web Demos:
Semiconductor Materials and Devices (SUNY Buffalo)
http://jas.eng.buffalo.edu/

Photonic Applets (Prof. Cartwright, SUNY Buffalo)
http://www.ee.buffalo.edu/faculty/cartwright/photonics/index.html

Visual Quantum Mechanics (KSU)

http://www.phys.ksu.edu/perg/vqm/software/

Thermodynamic Educational Sites (UIC)

http://tigger.uic.edu/~mansoori/Thermodynamics.Educational.Sites_html

Tutorials:
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

http://www.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/betha/qm/

http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/QM/Index.html

http://www.sfu.ca/chemcai/QUANTUM/Quantum_Primer.html

Introduction to Lasers

http://www.dewtronics.com/tutorials/lasers/leot/index.html

Academic Dishonesty and Cheating:

Any confirmed academic dishonesty including but not limited to copying homeworks or cheating on exams, will result in a no-pass or failing grade. You are encouraged to read the campus policies regarding academic integrity. Examples of cheating include (but are not limited to):

Sharing or copying results or other information during an examination.
Working on an exam before or after the official time allowed.
Submitting homework that is not your own work.
Reading another student's homework solution before it is due.
Allowing someone else to read your homework solution before the assignment is due.
Use homework solutions from previous years.

If there is any question as to whether a given action might be construed as cheating, see me before you engage in any such action.

Ali Shakouri
Last updated: March 16, 2005 4:45 PM