Elements of Quantum Optics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Classical Electromagnetic Fields

   • Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III

   Pages 1-40

3. Classical Nonlinear Optics

   • Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III

   Pages 41-59

4. Quantum Mechanical Background

   • Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III

   Pages 60-100

5. Mixtures and the Density Operator

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   Pages 101-128

6. CW Field Interactions

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   Pages 129-177

7. Introduction to Laser Theory

   • Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III

   Pages 178-222

8. Optical Bistability

   • Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III

   Pages 223-237

9. Saturation Spectroscopy

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   Pages 238-266

10. Three and Four Wave Mixing

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    Pages 267-282

11. Time-Varying Phenomena in Cavities

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    Pages 283-302

12. Coherent Transients

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    Pages 303-322

13. Field Quantization

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    Pages 323-346

14. Interaction between Atoms and Quantized Fields

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    Pages 347-373

15. System-Reservoir Interactions

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    Pages 374-405

16. Resonance Fluorescence

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    Pages 406-435

17. Squeezed States of Light

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    Pages 436-456

18. Quantum Theory of a Laser

    • Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent III

    Pages 457-487

19. Back Matter

    Pages 488-496

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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.

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• Laserphysik
• Quantenoptik
• design
• laser
• laser physics
• laser spectroscopy
• mechanics
• nonlinear optics
• optics
• physics
• quantum optics
• semiconductor
• spectroscopy

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.”

• Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

  Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent

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