Optical coherence and quantum optics / Leonard Mandel and Emil Wolf.
By: Mandel, Leonard
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Contributor(s): Wolf, Emil.
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BookPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995Description: xxvi,1166 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 0521417112 .Subject(s): Coherence (Optics) | Quantum opticsDDC classification: 535.2 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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The advent of lasers in the 1960s led to the development of many new fields in optical physics. This book is a systematic treatment of one of these fields--the broad area that deals with the coherence and fluctuation of light. The authors begin with a review of probability theory and random processes, and follow this with a thorough discussion of optical coherence theory within the framework of classical optics. They next treat the theory of photoelectric detection of light and photoelectric correlation. They then discuss in some detail quantum systems and effects. The book closes with two chapters devoted to laser theory and one on the quantum theory of nonlinear optics. The sound introduction to coherence theory and the quantum nature of light and the chapter-end exercises will appeal to graduate students and newcomers to the field. Researchers will find much of interest in the new results on coherence-induced spectral line shifts, nonclassical states of light, higher-order squeezing, and quantum effects of down-conversion. Written by two of the world's most highly regarded optical physicists, this book is required reading of all physicists and engineers working in optics.
Bibliography: p. 1109-1139. - Includes indexes.
Elements of probability theory -- Random (or stochastic) processes -- Some useful mathematical techniques -- Second order coherence theory of scalar wavefields -- Radiation from sources of any state of coherence -- Second order coherence theory of vector electromagnetic fields -- Some applications of second order coherence theory -- Higher order correlations in optical fields -- Semiclassical theory of photoelectric detection of light -- Quantization of the free electromagnetic field -- Coherent states of the electromagnetic field -- Quantum correlations and photon statistics -- Radiation from thermal equilibrium sources -- Quantum theory of photoelectric detection of light -- Interaction between light and a two level atom -- Collective atomic interactions -- Some general techniques for treating interacting systems -- The single mode laser -- The two mode ring laser -- The linear light amplifier -- Squeezed states of light -- Some quantum effects in nonlinear optics.