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...