UNIVERSITY MASTER

II Level  on

 Optics and Quantum Information

Direttore Concita Sibilia
Referente A. Pelorosso (Sapienza Università di Roma)
F. A. Bovino (Selex-SI)
Telefono (+39) 06 49766800
Fax (+39) 06 44240183

e-mail alessandra.pelorosso@uniroma1.it , fbovino@selex-si.com

II LEVEL MASTER

                     Optics and Quantum Information

Objective

The second level master in O&QI  has the specialized training of professionals in the field of quantum information (communication and computational quantum optics) as primary objective.

Access 

Those persons with degree in Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Science of Informations, Industrial Technologies and Physics will be allowed to participate to the course. A good knowledge of English language, both written and spoken, will be a selective factor, since some lectures will be given by European experts. The  registration form must be filled and sent to “Dipartimento di Scienze di Base e Applicate per l’Ingnegeria - SBAI”  according to indication in the web site:    

http://www2.uniroma1.it/studenti/laureati/master/bandi/16124.pdf

 Schedule

The MASTER’s duration is one academic year.

The MASTER is  divided into three quarters:

The first one begins in February and ends in May. In this period will be given the courses of lectures of the first series. The schedule of the lectures will be organized from time to time in accordance with the didactic requirements and above all in accordance with the operating requirements of the military participants. At the end of the first series, within the limits of the quarter, the participants will take the exams for the credits achieving.

The second one begins in June and ends in September indicatively. In this period the courses of lectures of the second series will be given, and at the end of the quarter the related exams will be taken.

In the third quarter, between October and December, the participant will take part to stages in industrial or research laboratories otherwise, in alternative, will choose other courses of lectures and for the thesis.

The dispute of the thesis and the related achieving of the Diploma will be taken place at the end of the third quarter. A session of extra lessons will be expected in January.

At the end of the course, the participant gets from the University of Rome La Sapienza the Master’s Degree of second level in O& QI. The Master’s achievement is subject to the achievement of 60 didactic credits.

Didactic seat

The lectures will be mostly performed, in the area of SBAI Department.

Address:

Dipartimento di Scienze di Base e Applicate per l’Ingegneria - SBAI

Sapienza Università di Roma

Via A.Scarpa 16, 00161 Roma (Italy)

Tel:  (+39) 06 49766800

Fax: (+39) 06 44240183

Department website: http://w3.uniroma1.it/sbai/

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The Master courses will be the following:

Optics: Fundamentals of geometrical optics. Waves. Sinusoidal waves. Plain waves. Refraction index. Polarization, diffraction. Propagation in anisotropic and inhomogeneous media (photonic crystals). Gaussian beams, Bessel beams, Laguerre-Gauss beams. Outline of “singular” optics. Outline of spectroscopy.

Nonlinear Optics: Polarization vector. Intuitive explanation of optics nonlinearities. Nonlinear susceptibility tensor, second order effects. Production of second harmonic and parametric processes, third order effects. Nonlinear refraction index self-focusing e self-defocusing. Parametric processes.

Laser (quantum electronics): Structure of matter. Plasmon. Principles of radiation-matter interaction. Continuous and pulsed laser systems. Parametric oscillators. Q-dots. Photonic crystal laser. Nanolaser. Integrated fibers. Nonlinear integrated fibers. In-out coupling of the radiation in embedded systems.

Optoelectronicdevices: Semiconductors and III-IV compounds. Homojunctions, heterojunctions and quantum wells. Junction photodetectors: pn, pin, avalanche photodetectors, single photon avalanche diodes. Noise in photodetectors, connection signal-noise, sensibility, BER and Q in optic receivers. Photodetector quantum limit. Fiber optics: typologies, electromagnetic propagation, dispersion (modal, chromatic and polarized), losses and nonlinear effects. Optical amplification: saturation, bandwidth, noise figure. Light guides in organic and inorganic dielectrics. Couplers, junctions to X, Y, and integrated interferometers. Electro-optic and acoustic-optic modulators. Optical logic gates.

Information Theory: Review of probability theory, random variables, stochastic   processes, stationarity and ergodicity, examples: Gaussian processes and Markov chains – Shannon, Renyi and Von Neumann entropies, relative entropy, Kullback Leibler distance, mutual information, sufficient statistics, Fano’s inequality, Shannon theorem on source coding, Kraft inequality, Huffman codes – Channel capacity, Shannon theorem on channel coding, examples: capacity of binary symmetric channel; capacity of Gaussian channel – Fundamentals of rate-distortion theory, maximum entropy principle

Quantum Information I: Classical Electrodynamics: fundamental equations and dynamical variables. Quantum Electrodynamics in the Coulomb Gauge: general framework, time evolution, observables and states of the quantized free field, the Hamiltonian for the Interaction between particles and field. Coherent interaction: two state dynamics, Jaynes-Cummings model. Quantum Statistics of the field. Dissipative processes. Dressed states.

Quantum Information II: Finite-Dimensional Hilbert Spaces: Quantum bits, Multiple qubits, Quantum Tomography, Entanglement, Bell Inequality, Teleportation, No-cloning. Quantum Information Theory: Entropy and Information, the Holevo Bound, Communication over noise quantum channels, entanglement as physical resource. Quantum dense coding and quantum cryptography. Infinite-Dimensional Hilbert Spaces.

Quantum Computing: Quantum circuits. Single and multiple qubits gates Quantum Fourier transform and its applications. Quantum search algorithms.

Devices for quantum computing: Conditions for quantum computation. Harmonic oscillator quantum computer. Optical quantum computer. Ion traps. Nuclear magnetic resonance. Other implementation schemes.

During the Optics courses a Laboratory course will be performed on  the optical phenomena  and devices described in the lectures given in the theoretical units, in particular: Classical Optics; Geometrical optics; Interference; Diffraction; Twyman-Green; Michelson and Mach-Zehnder interferometers; Grating diffraction; Monochromators; Optical fibres and Losses measurement in fibre optics communications.

Lasers: Pumping systems; Resonators; Gaussian beams; CW lasers; Q-Switched lasers; Modelocked lasers; Semiconductor lasers.

Quantum Optics: Experiments under low photon number conditions, Quantum beam-splitter, Anti-bunching.

Nonlinear Optics: Second harmonic generation, Pockels effect.

Final exam (6 credits)

The teaching will be ensured by specialists (coming not only by the academic society) in the above indicated arguments .

Insertion in the working society

The participant to the Master will have a specific education in the filed of technologies related to the Optics and the quantistic elaboration of the information. 

The objective of the Master is to provide real technical abilities to participants and  to be going to form professionals who, after one year for specialized preparation, would be ready for the work society with a education of high-profile technical and practical knowledge, at the European level.