5. Single photons, Part 2

MIT 8.422 Atomic and Optical Physics II, Spring 2013
Instructor: Wolfgang Ketterle

In this lecture, the professor continued to talk about single photons, Mach-Zehnder interferometer, etc.

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[peymanm]

I have seen many video lectures on OCW and the cameraman was OK but unfortunately in this specific lecture why they do not know what they should screen. Prof is explaining something on-screen and we just see his face! I am so sad that I didn't get the explanation of 2 qubits because of this low quality of filming.

[magnuswootton]

what about a surface that only takes light from 1 exact vector. if that were possible it would work like an orthogonal camera just one

[antoinegar.]

When describing the qbit with the occupation numbers (O or 1 || 0 or 1) of the two modes "a" and "b". "a" and "b" refer to two different modes of the harmonic oscillator or the two quadrature components ?

[AnilKumar-mzdj]

Any lecture on single photon scattering in

[shawnwilford]

what is the wiki prof. ketterle refered to here? wikipedia? or what else?

[VeteranVandal]

I can't understand why they don't ask questions... I'd have asked like 10 or 20 by the end of the class. They ask questions of great quality by the end of the classes (or qhen they rarely ask), and Ketterle has to point that out in the beginning of some videos.

What are they afraid of? Looking dumb? Everybody is dumb in this planet! Let us embrace it, and start asking questions to enrich this material. I know they'll work on their questions alone, but please, this not what I'd expect from a MIT course in physics...