MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Fall 2000 Catalogue Supplement

6.972 Quantum Optical Communication: Squeezing, Entanglement, and Teleportation (H)

MW 1-2:30, Room 37-212
Prof. Jeffrey Shapiro, Room 35-213, x3-4179
Prereq.: 6.011 and 18.06
3-0-9

Qualifies as a subject in the Communications Control Signal Processing Engineering Concentration

Quantum optics: Dirac notation quantum mechanics; harmonic oscillator quantization; number states, coherent states, and squeezed states; radiation field quantization and quantum field propagation; P-representation and classical fields. Linear loss and linear amplification: commutator preservation and the Uncertainty Principle; beam splitters; phase-insensitive and phase-sensitive amplifiers. Quantum photodetection: direct detection, heterodyne detection, and homodyne detection. X⁽²⁾ nonlinear optics: phase-matched interactions; optical parametric amplifiers; generation of squeezed states, photon-twin beams, non-classical fourth-order interference, and polarization entanglement. Quantum systems theory: optimum binary detection; quantum precision measurements; quantum cryptography; quantum teleportation. Term paper required.