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2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book

PHY 410 - Introduction to Quantum Optics

3 Credits
Offered periodically or as needed
This course is an introduction to the quantum properties of photons and light, and their applications. It covers quantization of the electromagnetic field, light-matter interactions, quantum states of light, quantum entanglement, the quantum interferometry, optical tests of quantum mechanics, and applications to quantum communication, quantum information processing, and precision measurement.

Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): PHY 323 - Quantum Physics