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