Quantum Optics

If a scientific discipline should be reduced to one concept only, quantum optics could be defined as the science of photons correlations.

The first experimental evidence of non-classical light is from Burnham and Weinberg.

Key Concepts and Problems

• photons correlations (as measured by, e.g., $g^{(2)}$) including frequency-resolved photon correlations.
• Single-Photon Sources (or SPS), in particular Antibunching.
• Resonance fluorescence, Parametric fluorescence, etc.
• Single-molecule spectroscopy.

People

(in no particular order)

• Leonard Mandel
• Roy Glauber
• Benjamin Mollow
• Serge Reynaud
• Crispin Gardiner
• Daniel Walls
• David Stoler
• Zhe-Yu Ou
• Malvin Carl Teich & Bahaa E. A. Saleh
• Howard Carmichael
• Gerard Milburn
• Klaus Mølmer
• Vahid Sandoghdar with molecules (and biology).
• Juha Javanainen from atomic BEC.
• David Pegg on the quantum phase.