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Title

Elements of quantum optics / Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III.

Author

Meystre, Pierre.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2007.

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Additional Authors

Sargent, Murray.

Description

xii, 507 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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, and important gateway to research in ultracold atoms and molecules."--Jacket.

Subject

• Quantum optics
• Quantenoptik
• Kwantumoptica

Genre/Form

• Problems and Exercises
• exercise books.
• Problems and exercises.
• Problèmes et exercices.

Note

• Earlier edition published 1999.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1 Classical Electromagnetic Fields 1 -- 1.1 Maxwell's Equations in a Vacuum 2 -- 1.2 Maxwell's Equations in a Medium 4 -- 1.3 Linear Dipole Oscillator 10 -- 1.4 Coherence 17 -- 1.5 Free-Electron Lasers 22 -- 2 Classical Nonlinear Optics 35 -- 2.1 Nonlinear Dipole Oscillator 35 -- 2.2 Coupled-Mode Equations 38 -- 2.3 Cubic Nonlinearity 40 -- 2.4 Four-Wave Mixing with Degenerate Pump Frequencies 43 -- 2.5 Nonlinear Susceptibilities 48 -- 3 Quantum Mechanical Background 51 -- 3.1 Review of Quantum Mechanics 52 -- 3.2 Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory 64 -- 3.3 Atom-Field Interaction for Two-Level Atoms 71 -- 3.4 Simple Harmonic Oscillator 82 -- 4 Mixtures and the Density Operator 93 -- 4.1 Level Damping 94 -- 4.2 The Density Matrix 98 -- 4.3 Vector Model of Density Matrix 106 -- 5 CW Field Interactions 117 -- 5.1 Polarization of Two-Level Medium 117 -- 5.2 Inhomogeneously Broadened Media 124 -- 5.3 Counterpropagating Wave Interactions 129 -- 5.4 Two-Photon Two-Level Model 133 -- 5.5 Polarization of Semiconductor Gain Media 139 -- 6 Mechanical Effects of Light 151 -- 6.1 Atom-Field Interaction 152 -- 6.2 Doppler Cooling 157 -- 6.3 The Near-Resonant Kapitza-Dirac Effect 158 -- 6.4 Atom Interferometry 166 -- 7 Introduction to Laser Theory 171 -- 7.1 The Laser Self-Consistency Equations 172 -- 7.2 Steady-State Amplitude and Frequency 175 -- 7.3 Standing-Wave, Doppler-Broadened Lasers 181 -- 7.4 Two-Mode Operation and the Ring Laser 187 -- 7.5 Mode Locking 191 -- 7.6 Single-Mode Semiconductor Laser Theory 194 -- 7.7 Transverse Variations and Gaussian Beams 198 -- 8 Optical Bistability 209 -- 8.1 Simple Theory of Dispersive Optical Bistability 210 -- 8.2 Absorptive Optical Bistability 215 -- 8.3 Ikeda Instability 217 -- 9 Saturation Spectroscopy 223 -- 9.1 Probe Wave Absorption Coefficient 224 -- 9.2 Coherent Dips and the Dynamic Stark Effect 230 -- 9.3 Inhomogeneously Broadened Media 238 -- 9.4 Three-Level Saturation Spectroscopy 241 -- 9.5 Dark States and Electromagnetically Induced Transparency 244 -- 10 Three and Four Wave Mixing 249 -- 10.1 Phase Conjugation in Two-Level Media 250 -- 10.2 Two-Level Coupled Mode Coefficients 253 -- 10.3 Modulation Spectroscopy 255 -- 10.4 Nondegenerate Phase Conjugation by Four-Wave Mixing 259 -- 11 Time-Varying Phenomena in Cavities 263 -- 11.1 Relaxation Oscillations in Lasers 264 -- 11.2 Stability of Single-Mode Laser Operation 267 -- 11.3 Multimode Mode Locking 271 -- 11.4 Single-Mode Laser and the Lorenz Model 274 -- 12 Coherent Transients 281 -- 12.1 Optical Nutation 282 -- 12.2 Free Induction Decay 284 -- 12.3 Photon Echo 285 -- 12.4 Ramsey Fringes 288 -- 12.5 Pulse Propagation and Area Theorem 289 -- 12.6 Self-Induced Transparency 293 -- 12.7 Slow Light 295 -- 13 Field Quantization 299 -- 13.1 Single-Mode Field Quantization 299 -- 13.2 Multimode Field Quantization 302 -- 13.3 Single-Mode Field in Thermal Equilibrium 304 -- 13.4 Coherent States 307 -- 13.5 Coherence of Quantum Fields 311 -- 13.6 Quasi-Probability Distributions 314 -- 13.7 Schrodinger Field Quantization 318 -- 13.8 The Gross-Pitaevskii Equation 322 -- 14 Interaction Between Atoms and Quantized Fields 327 -- 14.1 Dressed States 328 -- 14.2 Jaynes-Cummings Model 333 -- 14.3 Spontaneous Emission in Free Space 338 -- 14.4 Quantum Beats 344 -- 15 System-Reservoir Interactions 351 -- 15.1 Master Equation 353 -- 15.2 Fokker-Planck Equation 362 -- 15.3 Langevin Equations 364 -- 15.4 Monte-Carlo Wave Functions 369 -- 15.5 Quantum Regression Theorem and Noise Spectra 374 -- 16 Resonance Fluorescence 383 -- 16.1 Phenomenology 384 -- 16.2 Langevin Equations of Motion 387 -- 16.3 Scattered Intensity and Spectrum 390 -- 16.4 Connection with Probe Absorption 396 -- 16.5 Photon Antibunching 400 -- 16.6 Off-Resonant Excitation 403 -- 17 Squeezed States of Light 409 -- 17.1 Squeezing the Coherent State 410 -- 17.2 Two-Sidemode Master Equation 414 -- 17.3 Two-Mode Squeezing 417 -- 17.4 Squeezed Vacuum 421 -- 18 Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics 427 -- 18.1 Generalized Master Equation for the Atom-Cavity System 428 -- 18.2 Weak Coupling Regime 430 -- 18.3 Strong Coupling Regime 432 -- 18.4 Velocity-Dependent Spontaneous Emission 435 -- 18.5 Input-Output Formalism 440 -- 19 Quantum Theory of a Laser 445 -- 19.1 The Micromaser 447 -- 19.2 Single Mode Laser Master Equation 454 -- 19.3 Laser Photon Statistics and Linewidth 460 -- 19.4 Quantized Sidemode Buildup 468 -- 20 Entanglement, Bell Inequalities and Quantum Information 473 -- 20.1 Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox and Bell Inequalities 473 -- 20.2 Bipartite Entanglement 477 -- 20.3 The Quantum Beam Splitter 480 -- 20.4 Quantum Teleportation 483 -- 20.5 Quantum Cryptography 484 -- 20.6 Toward Quantum Computing 486.

ISBN

• 9783540742098
• 3540742093

LCCN

• 2007933854
• 9783540742098

OCLC

• ocn173807357
• 173807357
• SCSB-13561906

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library