| Description | | - Completely updated new edition, substantial amount of new material
- Textbook style of writing, including over 100 problems.
- Simple and detailed derivations of all main relations in quantum optics
- Provides descriptions and interpretations of key experiments in quantum optics
- Numerous figures to illustrate concepts and conclusions
- From reviews of the 2/e:
'This book has become essential reading for anyone working in the new and dynamic field of quantum optics. A whole generation of students has been brought up on its clear and down-to-earth approach. [...] New research students are lucky to have such a clear guide to their field.'P. Knight, Nature, November 1983
| | This third edition, like its two predecessors, provides a detailed account of the basic theory needed to understand the properties of light and its interactions with atoms, in particular the many nonclassical effects that have now been observed in quantum-optical experiments. The earlier chapters describe the quantum mechanics of various optical processes, leading from the classical
representation of the electromagnetic field to the quantum theory of light. The later chapters develop the theoretical descriptions of some of the key experiments in quantum optics. Over half of the material in this third edition is new. It includes topics that have come into prominence over the last two decades, such as the beamsplitter theory, squeezed light, two-photon interference, balanced
homodyne detection, travelling-wave attenuation and amplification, quantum jumps, and the ranges of nonliner optical processes important in the generation of nonclassical light. The book is written as a textbook, with the treatment as a whole appropriate for graduate or postgraduate students, while earlier chapters are also suitable for final- year undergraduates. Over 100 problems help to
intensify the understanding of the material presented. |
Readership: Final-year physics undergraduates, physics graduate students, research workers in experimental and theoretical quantum optics. Graduate students and researchers in physical chemistry and electrical engineering.
| Contents |
Preface
1.
Planck's radiation law and the Einstein coefficients
2.
Quantum mechanics of the atom-radiation interaction
3.
Classical theory of optical fluctuations and coherence
4.
Quantization of the radiation field
5.
Single-mode quantum optics
6.
Multimode and continuous-mode quantum optics
7.
Optical generation, attenuation and amplification
8.
Resonance fluorescence and light scattering
9.
Nonlinear quantum optics
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Rodney Loudon, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, University of Essex
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