Overview
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Pierre Meystre
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Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
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Murray Sargent
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Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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- Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III
Pages 1-40
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- Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III
Pages 41-59
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- Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III
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- Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III
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- Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III
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- Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III
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- Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III
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- Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III
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- Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III
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- Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III
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- Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III
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- Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III
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- Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III
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- Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III
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- Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III
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- Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III
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Back Matter
Pages 488-496
About this book
This book grew out of a 2-semester graduate course in laser physics and quantum optics. It requires a solid understanding of elementary electro magnetism as well as at least one, but preferably two, semesters of quantum mechanics. Its present form resulted from many years of teaching and research at the University of Arizona, the Max-Planck-Institut fiir Quanten optik, and the University of Munich. The contents have evolved signifi cantly over the years, due to the fact that quantum optics is a rapidly chang ing field. Because the amount of material that can be covered in two semes ters is finite, a number of topics had to be left out or shortened when new material was added. Important omissions include the manipulation of atomic trajectories by light, superradiance, and descriptions of experiments. Rather than treating any given topic in great depth, this book aims to give a broad coverage of the basic elements that we consider necessary to carry out research in quantum optics. We have attempted to present a vari ety of theoretical tools, so that after completion of the course students should be able to understand specialized research literature and to produce original research of their own. In doing so, we have always sacrificed rigor to physical insight and have used the concept of "simplest nontrivial exam ple" to illustrate techniques or results that can be generalized to more com plicated situations.
Reviews
FROM THE REVIEWS:
JOURNAL OF MODERN OPTICS
"The second edition has been revised an updated with new material on the effects of light pressure on atoms and on atomic optics. It is concise and my own research students find it to be a sympathetic and intelligible introduction. It is particularly good on supplying the core of a problem so that the new student can go to more advanced monographs with the requisite insight and confidence needed to tackle contemporary research topics.”
