Introduction to Quantum Optics
Subtitle: From the Semi-classical Approach to Quantized Light
Contributors: Aspect, Alain; Fabre, Claude, 1951-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 697
ISBN-13: 9780511788253
Subjects: Science; Science: Physics; Quantum electrodynamics; Quantum field theory; Quantum optics
Description: Introductory textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, covering a number of important subjects in quantum optics.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contents (long); Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I Semi-classical description of matterlight interaction; 1 The evolution of interacting quantum systems; 2 The semi-classical approach: atomsinteracting with a classical electromagnetic field; 3 Principles of lasers; Part II Quantum description of light and its interaction with matter; 4 Quantization of free radiation; 5 Free quantum radiation; 6 Interaction of an atom with the quantized electromagnetic field; Part III Applying both approaches.; title: 7 Nonlinear optics. From the semi-classical approach to quantum effectsComplement 7A Parametric amplification and oscillation. Semi-classical and quantum properties; Complement 7B Nonlinear optics in optical Kerr media; 8 Laser manipulation of atoms. From incoherent atom optics to atom lasers; Index.