Free lunch served at 12:00

We will discuss a variety of interesting phenomena that have been demonstrated in non-linear optics experiments. In non-linear optics (NLO), an atom’s response to an electric field is not necessarily only proportional to the electric field. The atomic response could be proportional to higher powers of the electric field, as well. We have used a particular NLO process, called Four-Wave Mixing, to generate light with uncertainty distributions that are ‘squeezed’, and send pulses of light (but not information) faster than c. I will give an introduction in non-linear optics and quantum optics before discussing the results of recent experiments where we generate squeezed light and fast light.