<dl> <dd><b>Contents:</b><br /> 1. Basic concepts of statistical optics<br /> 2. Spatial and temporal coherence. Coherent modes, photon number per mode<br /> 3. Intensity fluctuations and Hanbury Brown and Twiss experiment<br /> 4. Interaction between atom and light (semiclassical description)<br /> 5. Quantization of the electromagnetic field<br /> 6. Quantum operators and quantum states<br /> 7. Heisenberg and Schrödinger pictures<br /> 8. Polarization in quantum optics<br /> 9. Nonlinear optical effects for producing nonclassical light<br /> 10. Parametric down-conversion and four-wave mixing, biphotons, squeezed light<br /> 11. Single-photon states and single-photon emitters<br /> 12. Entanglement and Bell’s inequality violation</dd></dl>
