Alain Aspect

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Positions:

CNRS Distinguished Scientist (Directeur de recherche CNRS) at Laboratoire Charles Fabry; Head of the Atom Optics Group
Augustin Fresnel Professor at Institut d'Optique
Professor at Ecole Polytechnique

Contacts and Adress:

• mail: alain.aspect@institutoptique.fr
• Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d'Optique
  2 Avenue Augustin Fresnel
  91127 Palaiseau - France
• Assistante: Nicole Tcherniavsky,
  • nicole.tcherniavsky@institutoptique.fr
  • +33 1 64 53 31 03 (Sec.)
  • +33 1 64 53 31 18 (Fax.)

Textbook on Quantum Optics

Introduction to Quantum Optics: from the semi-classical approach to quantized light,
Gilbert Grynberg, Alain Aspect, Claude Fabre ,
revised with help of Fabien Bretenaker and Antoine Browaeys,
Foreword by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
For more information see www.cambridge.org/9780521551120

Single photons interference building up

A movie showing how interference fringes build up with a genuine source of single photons (for more information, see http://www.physique.ens-cachan.fr/old/franges_photon/index.htm courtesy Jean-François Roch), and the corresponding Quantum Optics calcualtions as presented in chapter 5 of Introduction to Quantum Optics

L'histoire d'un photon

Un récit mis en image par Anne Papillault et Jean-François Dars, et faisant partie de la merveilleuse collection d'histoires courtes disponibles sur http://llx.fr/

Notes de cours à télécharger

Extraits des notes de cours à l'Ecole Polytechnique

Some papers of AA not so easy to find

• John Bell and the second quantum revolution (foreword of "Speakable and unspeakble in quantum Mechanics", J.S. Bell papers on quantum mechanics, Cambridge University Press, 2004)
  Foreword to Bell collected papers (PDF / 204,43 kB)
• Bell Theorem: the naïve view of an experimentalist (a presentation of Bell's theorem with a review of the experimental tests of Bell's inequalities, 2004)
  Bell Theorem: naïve view of an experimentalist (PDF / 431,70 kB)