TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meystre,Pierre
AU  - Sargent,Murray
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Elements of Quantum Optics
SN  - 9783540742111
AV  - QC793-793.5 
U1  - 539.72 23
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
KW  - Physics
KW  - Elementary particles (Physics)
KW  - Quantum field theory
KW  - Quantum optics
KW  - Lasers
KW  - Photonics
KW  - Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
KW  - Laser Technology, Photonics
KW  - Quantum Optics
N1  - Classical Electromagnetic Fields -- Classical Nonlinear Optics -- Quantum Mechanical Background -- Mixtures and the Density Operator -- CW Field Interactions -- Mechanical Effects of Light -- to Laser Theory -- Optical Bistability -- Saturation Spectroscopy -- Three and Four Wave Mixing -- Time-Varying Phenomena in Cavities -- Coherent Transients -- Field Quantization -- Interaction Between Atoms and Quantized Fields -- System-Reservoir Interactions -- Resonance Fluorescence -- Squeezed States of Light -- Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics -- Quantum Theory of a Laser -- Entanglement, Bell Inequalities and Quantum Information
N2  - Elements of Quantum Optics gives a self-contained and broad coverage of the basic elements necessary to understand and carry out research in laser physics and quantum optics, including a review of basic quantum mechanics and pedagogical introductions to system-reservoir interactions and to second quantization. The text reveals the close connection between many seemingly unrelated topics, such as probe absorption, four-wave mixing, optical instabilities, resonance fluorescence and squeezing. It also comprises discussions of cavity quantum electrodynamics and atom optics. The 4th edition includes a new chapter on quantum entanglement and quantum information, as well as added discussions of the quantum beam splitter, electromagnetically induced transparency, slow light, and the input-output formalism needed to understand many problems in quantum optics. It also provides an expanded treatment of the minimum-coupling Hamiltonian and a simple derivation of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, an important gateway to research in ultracold atoms and molecules
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74211-1
ER  -