Title: Introduction to quantum optics : from light quanta to quantum teleportation /
Authors: Paul, Harry, 1931-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Photons.
Abstract: "The purpose of this book is to provide a physical understanding of what photons are and of their properties and applications. Special emphasis is made in the text on photon pairs produced in parametric down-conversion, which exhibit instrinsically quantum mechanical correlations known as entanglement, and which extend over manifestly macroscopic distances. Such photon pairs are well suited to the physical realization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-type experiments, and also make possible such exciting techniques as quantum cryptography and teleportation. In addition, non-classical properties of light, such as photon antibunching and squeezing, as well as quantum phase measurement and optical tomography, are discussed.