Quantum optics / J.C. Garrison and R.Y. Chiao
- Bib ID:
- 4399051
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Garrison, John C
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- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
- xiii, 716 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780198508861
- 0198508867
- Series:
- Oxford graduate texts.
- Summary:
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"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, resonance fluorescence, laser theory, quantum theory of four-wave mixing, quantum non-demolition measurements, Bell's inequalities, and atom optics. Experimental results are used to illustrate the theory throughout. This yields the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of experiment and theory in quantum optics in any textbook."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: 1 The quantum nature of light 3
- 1.1 The early experiments 5
- 1.2 Photons 13
- 1.3 Are photons necessary? 20
- 1.4 Indivisibility of photons 24
- 1.5 Spontaneous down-conversion light source 28
- 1.6 Silicon avalanche-photodiode photon counters 29
- 1.7 The quantum theory of light 29
- 1.8 Exercises 30
- 2 Quantization of cavity modes 32
- 2.1 Quantization of cavity modes 32
- 2.2 Normal ordering and zero-point energy 47
- 2.3 States in quantum theory 48
- 2.4 Mixed states of the electromagnetic field 55
- 2.5 Vacuum fluctuations 60
- 2.6 The Casimir effect 62
- 2.7 Exercises 65
- 3 Field quantization 69
- 3.1 Field quantization in the vacuum 69
- 3.2 The Heisenberg picture 83
- 3.3 Field quantization in passive linear media 87
- 3.4 Electromagnetic angular momentum 100
- 3.5 Wave packet quantization 103
- 3.6 Photon localizability 106
- 3.7 Exercises 109
- 4 Interaction of light with matter 111
- 4.1 Semiclassical electrodynamics 111
- 4.2 Quantum electrodynamics 113
- 4.3 Quantum Maxwell's equations 117
- 4.4 Parity and time reversal 118
- 4.5 Stationary density operators 121
- 4.6 Positive- and negative-frequency parts for interacting fields 122
- 4.7 Multi-time correlation functions 123
- 4.8 The interaction picture 124
- 4.9 Interaction of light with atoms 130
- 4.10 Exercises 145
- 5 Coherent states 148
- 5.1 Quasiclassical states for radiation oscillators 148
- 5.2 Sources of coherent states 153
- 5.3 Experimental evidence for Poissonian statistics 157
- 5.4 Properties of coherent states 161
- 5.5 Multimode coherent states 167
- 5.6 Phase space description of quantum optics 172
- 5.7 Gaussian states 187
- 5.8 Exercises 190
- 6 Entangled states 193
- 6.1 Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen states 193
- 6.2 Schridinger's concept of entangled states 194
- 6.3 Extensions of the notion of entanglement 195
- 6.4 Entanglement for distinguishable particles 200
- 6.5 Entanglement for identical particles 205
- 6.6 Entanglement for photons 210
- 6.7 Exercises 216
- 7 Paraxial quantum optics 218
- 7.1 Classical paraxial optics 219
- 7.2 Paraxial states 219
- 7.3 The slowly-varying envelope operator 223
- 7.4 Gaussian beams and pulses 226
- 7.5 The paraxial expansion 228
- 7.6 Paraxial wave packets 229
- 7.7 Angular momentum 230
- 7.8 Approximate photon localizability 232
- 7.9 Exercises 234
- 8 Linear optical devices 237
- 8.1 Classical scattering 237
- 8.2 Quantum scattering 242
- 8.3 Paraxial optical elements 245
- 8.4 The beam splitter 247
- 8.5 Y-junctions 254
- 8.6 Isolators and circulators 255
- 8.7 Stops 260
- 8.8 Exercises 262
- 9 Photon detection 265
- 9.1 Primary photon detection 265
- 9.2 Postdetection signal processing 280
- 9.3 Heterodyne and homodyne detection 290
- 9.4 Exercises 305
- 10 Experiments in linear optics 307
- 10.1 Single-photon interference 307
- 10.2 Two-photon interference 315
- 10.3 Single-photon interference revisited 333
- 10.4 Tunneling time measurements 337
- 10.5 The meaning of causality in quantum optics 343
- 10.6 Interaction-free measurements 345
- 10.7 Exercises 348
- 11 Coherent interaction of light with atoms 350
- 11.1 Resonant wave approximation 350
- 11.2 Spontaneous emission II 357
- 11.3 The semiclassical limit 369
- 11.4 Exercises 379
- 12 Cavity quantum electrodynamics 381
- 12.1 The Jaynes-Cummings model 381
- 12.2 Collapses and revivals 384
- 12.3 The micromaser 387
- 12.4 Exercises 390
- 13 Nonlinear quantum optics 391
- 13.1 The atomic polarization 391
- 13.2 Weakly nonlinear media 393
- 13.3 Three-photon interactions 399
- 13.4 Four-photon interactions 412
- 13.5 Exercises 418
- 14 Quantum noise and dissipation 420
- 14.1 The world as sample and environment 420
- 14.2 Photons in a lossy cavity 428
- 14.3 The input-output method 435
- 14.4 Noise and dissipation for atoms 442
- 14.5 Incoherent pumping 447
- 14.6 The fluctuation dissipation theorem 450
- 14.7 Quantum regression 454
- 14.8 Photon bunching 456
- 14.9 Resonance fluorescence 457
- 14.10 Exercises 466
- 15 Nonclassical states of light 470
- 15.1 Squeezed states 470
- 15.2 Theory of squeezed-light generation 485
- 15.3 Experimental squeezed-light generation 492
- 15.4 Number states 495
- 15.5 Exercises 497
- 16 Linear optical amplifiers 499
- 16.1 General properties of linear amplifiers 499
- 16.2 Regenerative amplifiers 502
- 16.3 Traveling-wave amplifiers 510
- 16.4 General description of linear amplifiers 516
- 16.5 Noise limits for linear amplifiers 523
- 16.6 Exercises 527
- 17 Quantum tomography 529
- 17.1 Classical tomography 529
- 17.2 Optical homodyne tomography 532
- 17.3 Experiments in optical homodyne tomography 533
- 17.4 Exercises 537
- 18 The master equation 538
- 18.1 Reduced density operators 538
- 18.2 The environment picture 538
- 18.3 Averaging over the environment 539
- 18.4 Examples of the master equation 542
- 18.5 Phase space methods 546
- 18.6 The Lindblad form of the master equation 556
- 18.7 Quantum jumps 557
- 18.8 Exercises 576
- 19 Bell's theorem and its optical tests 578
- 19.1 The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox 579
- 19.2 The nature of randomness in the quantum world 581
- 19.3 Local realism 583
- 19.4 Bell's theorem 589
- 19.5 Quantum theory versus local realism 591
- 19.6 Comparisons with experiments 596
- 19.7 Exercises 600
- 20 Quantum information 601
- 20.1 Telecommunications 601
- 20.2 Quantum cloning 606
- 20.3 Quantum cryptography 616
- 20.4 Entanglement as a quantum resource 619
- 20.5 Quantum computing 630
- 20.6 Exercises 639
- Appendix A Mathematics 645
- A.1 Vector analysis 645
- A.2 General vector spaces 645
- A.3 Hilbert spaces 646
- A.4 Fourier transforms 651
- A.5 Laplace transforms 654
- A.6 Functional analysis 655
- A.7 Improper functions 656
- A.8 Probability and random variables 659
- Appendix B Classical electrodynamics 661
- B.1 Maxwell's equations 661
- B.2 Electrodynamics in the frequency domain 662
- B.3 Wave equations 663
- B.4 Planar cavity 669
- B.5 Macroscopic Maxwell equations 670
- Appendix C Quantum theory 680
- C.1 Dirac's bra and ket notation 680
- C.2 Physical interpretation 683
- C.3 Useful results for operators 685
- C.4 Canonical commutation relations 690
- C.5 Angular momentum in quantum mechanics 692
- C.6 Minimal coupling 693.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [695]-707)
- Subject:
- Quantum optics
- Other authors/contributors:
- Chiao, Raymond Y
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