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An Open Systems Approach to Quantum Optics

Lectures Presented at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, October 28 to November 4, 1991

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  • © 1993

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Authors:
  1. Howard Carmichael

    1. Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs (LNPMGR, volume 18)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-4

  3. Master Equations and Sources I

    Pages 5-21

  4. Master Equations and Sources II

    Pages 22-38

  5. Standard Methods of Analysis I

    Pages 39-57

  6. Standard Methods of Analysis II

    Pages 58-77

  7. Photoelectric Detection I

    Pages 78-92

  8. Photoelectric Detection II

    Pages 93-112

  9. Quantum Trajectories I

    Pages 113-125

  10. Quantum Trajectories II

    Pages 126-139

  11. Quantum Trajectories III

    Pages 140-154

  12. Quantum Trajectories IV

    Pages 155-173

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 174-182
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This volume contains ten lectures presented in the series ULB Lectures in Nonlinear Optics at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles during the period October 28 to November 4, 1991. A large part of the first six lectures is taken from material prepared for a book of somewhat larger scope which will be published,by Springer under the title Quantum Statistical Methods in Quantum Optics. The principal reason for the early publication of the present volume concerns the material contained in the last four lectures. Here I have put together, in a more or less systematic way, some ideas about the use of stochastic wavefunctions in the theory of open quantum optical systems. These ideas were developed with the help of two of my students, Murray Wolinsky and Liguang Tian, over a period of approximately two years. They are built on a foundation laid down in a paper written with Surendra Singh, Reeta Vyas, and Perry Rice on waiting-time distributions and wavefunction collapse in resonance fluorescence [Phys. Rev. A, 39, 1200 (1989)]. The ULB lecture notes contain my first serious atte~pt to give a complete account of the ideas and their potential applications. I am grateful to Professor Paul Mandel who, through his invitation to give the lectures, stimulated me to organize something useful out of work that may, otherwise, have waited considerably longer to be brought together.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA

    Howard Carmichael

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