Quantum Optics: An Introduction - Hardcover

Vogel, Werner; Welsch, Dirk–Gunnar; Wallentowitz, Sascha

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 352740256X ISBN 13: 9783527402564

Publisher: Wiley VCH, 2001

Synopsis

This is the revised and supplemented edition of the acknowledged "Lectures on Quantum Optics" by W. Vogel and D.G. Welsch. It offers theoretical concepts of quantum optics, with special emphasis on current research trends. Quantum-state reconstruction and laser-driven quantized motion of trapped atoms are new topics that are included in the revised edition. The rigorous development of quantum optics in the context of quantum field theory and the attention spent to details make the book valuable to graduate students as well as to researchers in related areas. From the contents: Introduction; Elements of quantum electrodynamics; Quantum states of bosonic systems; Phase-space representations; Quantum theory of damping; Photoelectric detection of light; Quantum--state reconstruction; Non-classical states; Leaky optical cavities; Theory of resonance fluorescence; A single atom in a high-Q cavity; and Laser-driven quantized motion of a trapped atom.

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Werner Vogel, Dirk-Gunnar Welsch, Sascha Wallentowitz Quantum Optics An Introduction The fundamentals of quantum optics are introduced in a sufficient depth for their practical application and for an understanding and treatment of specialized problems arising in recent research. On the basis of a quantum-field-theoretical approach, important topics are presented in a unified manner:

• quantization of the electromagnetic field in the presence of dielectric bodies
• minimal coupling, multipolar coupling, dipole approximation, rotating-wave approximation, effective Hamiltonians
• source-attributed light and time-dependent field commutation rules
• number states, coherent states, squeezed states, quadrature states, phase states
• phase-space representations
• damped quantum systems
• input-output relations
• photoelectric counting, correlation techniques, spectral measurements and homodyne detection
• quantum-state reconstruction
• non-classical light and matter
• resonance fluorescence
• cavity QED
• quantized motion of a trapped atom

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley VCH
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 352740256X
• ISBN 13: 9783527402564
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 441