Quantum Optics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Walls, D.F (Editor), Milburn, Gerard J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum physics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Quantum optics.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Laser Technology, Photonics.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Quantum Optics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.; Quantum Physics.

Quantum Optics gives a comprehensive coverage of developments in quantum optics over the past years. In the early chapters the formalism of quantum optics is elucidated and the main techniques are introduced. These are applied in the later chapters to problems such as squeezed states of light, reson...

Table of Contents:

• Quantisation of the Electromagnetic Field
• Coherence Properties of the Electromagnetic Field
• Representations of the Electromagnetic Field
• Quantum Phenomena in Simple Systems in Nonlinear Optics
• Stochastic Methods
• Input–Output Formulation of Optical Cavities
• Generation and Applications of Squeezed Light
• Nonlinear Quantum Dissipative Systems
• Interaction of Radiation with Atoms
• CQED
• Quantum Theory of the Laser
• Bells Inequalities in Quantum Optics
• Quantum Nondemolition Measurements
• Quantum Coherence and Measurement Theory
• Quantum Information
• Ion Traps
• Light Forces
• Bose-Einstein Condensation.