Quantum Optics [Paperback]

Quantum Optics gives a comprehensive coverage of developments in quantum optics over the past twenty years. In the early chapters the formalism of quantum optics is elucidated and the main techniques are introduced. These are applied in the later chapters to problems such as squeezed states of light, resonance fluorescence, laser theory, quantum theory of four-wave mixing, quantum non-demolition measurements, Bell's inequalities, and atom optics. Experimental results are used to illustrate the theory throughout. This yields the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of experiment and theory in quantum optics in any textbook.Quantum Optics gives a comprehensive coverage of developments in quantum optics over the past twenty years. In the early chapters the formalism of quantum optics is elucidated and the main techniques are introduced. These are applied in the later chapters to problems such as squeezed states of light, resonance fluorescence, laser theory, quantum theory of four-wave mixing, quantum non-demolition measurements, Bell's inequalities, and atom optics. Experimental results are used to illustrate the theory throughout. This yields the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of experiment and theory in quantum optics in any textbook.1. Introduction.- 2. Quantisation of the Electromagnetic Field.- 2.1 Field Quantisation.- 2.2 Fock or Number States.- 2.3 Coherent States.- 2.4 Squeezed States.- 2.5 Two-Photon Coherent States.- 2.6 Variance in the Electric Field.- 2.7 Multimode Squeezed States.- 2.8 Phase Properties of the Field.- Exercises.- 3. Coherence Properties of the Electromagnetic Field.- 3.1 Field-Correlation Functions.- 3.2 Properties of the Correlation Functions.- 3.3 Correlation Functions and Optical Coherence.- 3.4 First-Order Optical Coherence.- 3.5 Coherent Field.- 3.6 Photon Correlation Measurements.- 3.7 Quantum Mechanical Fields.- 3.7.1 Squeezed States.- 3.7.2 Squeezed Vacuum.- 3.8 Phase-Dependenlƒ<