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Author:   N.P. Bigelow ,  J.H. Eberly ,  C.R. Stroud Jr. ,  I.A. Walmsley
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.377kg
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9781461347156

ISBN 10:   1461347157
Pages:   710
Publication Date:   05 November 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

The Early Days of Quantum Optics in France.- Early History of Bell’s Theorem.- Cavity QED with Strong Coupling — Toward the Deterministic Control of Quantum Dynamics.- Fast and Slow Light.- Controlling Quantum Rotation with Light.- Retrodictive Quantum Optics.- Spontaneous Intrinsic Decoherence in Two and Three Slits Young Interference Experiments.- All Optical Formation of a Bose Einstein Condensate.- Faster-than-Light Propagations and Their Applications.- Beyond Diffraction Limit in Optical Lithography via Quantum Entanglement.- “Stopping” of Light and Quantum Memories for Photons.- Quantum Aspects of Imaging.- Polarization Dynamics of a Two-Photon Laser.- Atomic Clocks and Cold Atom Scattering.- Manipulating Entanglement with Atoms and Photons in a Box.- Taming Light with Cold Atoms: Light at Bicycle Speed … and Slower Yet!.- Dark Resonances in Solids for Quantum Computing and Slow Light.- Quantum Dot Single Photon Source.- Coherenceand Collective Behavior in Bose-Einstein Condensates.- Sub-Diffraction-Limited Resolution with Squeezed Light.- Fiber Generated Quantum Correlations for Quantum-Optical Communications.- JC Photons in Frequency Continua: Exact Solution and Quantum Features.- A Bose Einstein Condensate of Metastable Helium Atoms.- Quantum Interferometry with Fiber Solitons — A direct Experimental Test of Non-Separability.- Nonlinear Atom Optics: Bosons vs Fermions.- Instability, Area Quantization, and Area Gaps in Cavity-Accelerated Superradiant Atom-Cavity Systems.- Multitime Coherent Spectroscopies of Complex Molecules: From Infrared to X-Ray.- Wave-Particle Correlations of Non-Classical Light.- Real-Time Control of Atomic Motion Using Feedback.- Single Atomsand Single Photons in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics.- Nontrivial Analogies BetweenQuantum Optics and Bose-Einstein Condensation.- Hyperentanglement in Parametric Down-Conversion.- Coherencein an Optically Trapped Fermi Gas.- Generation of Photon Number States by Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics.- Superluminal Light Pulse Propagation at a Negative Group Velocity.- Decoherence of Trapped-Atom Motional State Superpositions.- Recent Advances in Teleportation of Entanglement and in Fullerene Interference.- Nonclassical, Two-Photon Interferometry and Lithography with High-Gain Optical Parametric Amplifiers.- Simultaneous Quantum State Measurement Using Array Detection.- Quantum Positioning System.- High-Frequency, Time-Domain, Optical Homodyne Tomography.- Coherent Control of Atoms in an Optical Lattice.- Photoionization of Bose-Einstein Condensates.- Quantum Noise in Coupled Atomic and Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensates.- Cavity-QED with a Single Ion.- Superradiance in Photonic Crystals.- Temporal and Spatial Coherence Properties of Nonstationary Polychromatic Light Sourcesin One-Dimensional Photonic Band-Gap Structures.- Effectof measurements of Collective Observables on a Single Atom.- Experimental Demonstration of Wave Chaos in a Conventional Optical Resonator.- Bell State Preparation Using Pulsed Non-Degenerate Two-Photon Entanglement.- Efficient collection of Polarization-Entangled Photons on Type-II Parametric Down Conversion.- A Stochastic Map for Qubit Decoherence.- Fighting Decoherence with Pointer Engineering.- Uncertainty Relations Associated with Correlations in Mixed Quantum States.- Observation of Gouy Scars in Optical Wave Chaos.- Adiabatic Wavepacket Propagation.- Squeezing Light in Linear Dispersive Dielectrics.- Intensity-Field and Intensity-Intensity Correlations in a Strongly Coupled Cavity QED System.- Separation Approach for Jaynes-Cummings Model in Multi-Level Atom.- Ion Coulomb-Crystals: A Medium for Storage of Quantum States of Light?.- Chaotic Walking of a Cold Atom in an Ideal Cavity.- Feedback with Conditional Measurements in Cavity QED.- Effects of Decoherence on Entangled Atomic Wave Functions in Microcavities.- Fiber Generated Quantum Correlations for Quantum-Optical Communications.- Bloch-Siegert Oscillation for Detection and Quantum Teleportation of the Phase of an Oscillating Field.- Two-Photon Diffraction and Quantum Lithography.- Suppressing Decoherence and Heating with Quantum “Bang-Bang” Controls.- Entanglement Disentangled by Spacetime Vortices.- Atomic Inversion for an Atom Coupledto a Squeezed Vacuum in a Coherently Driven Cavity.- Quantization of the Field in Dielectrics.- Quantum Optical Effects Across a Metallic Film.- Coupled Interferometer Scheme for Generating Maximally Entangled Photonic States.- Enhanced Second-Harmonic Generation Due to a Local-Field Effect.- Nonclassical Behaviours of Optical Field in Photoncs Band Gaps Structures.- The Photon Modeland Non-Hermitean Modes.- Induced Coherence without Induced Emission in Parametric Down-Conversion.- Correlation Functions, Measurement Operators, and Conditioned Atomic States in Resonance Fluorescence with Spectral Resolution.- Quantum Algebras for Quantum Optics.- A Delayed-Choice Quantum Eraser Experiment.- Delayed Single-Photon Self-Interference — A Double Slit Experiment in the Time Domain.- Retrodiction with Two-Level Atoms: Atomic Previvals and Micromaser Field Measurements.- Measurements of the Geometric Phase of First-Order Optical Gaussian Beams.- Fresnel Diffraction of Circular Apertures Illuminated with Partially-Coherent Light: Cross Spectral Density Propagation.- Radiation Forces Produced by Non-ParaxialBeam Trapping.- Measurement of the Polarization-Induced Asymmetry in Focal Spots.- Partially Coherent Imaging Through Turbulence with an All-Optical Adaptive-Optics System.- Interrelation Between Spatial and Temporal Reciprocity Inequalities of Partially-Coherent Beams.- Ultra-Sensitive Autocorrelation of 1.5 ?um Light with a Photon-Counting Silicon Avalanche Photodiode.- A New Phase Space Product for Light Beams of Any State of Coherence.- Spectral Changes in Focused Partially Coherent Wave Fields.- Nonachromaticity and Reversals of Topological Phase as a Function of Wavelength.- The Law of Conservation of Radiance is a Consequence of the Partial Coherence of the Optical Field.- Application of Modal Theory of Coherence for Nonstationary Partially Coherent Optical Fields.- Photonic Electro-Magnetic Resonance.- Partially Coherent Volume Diffraction.- Inverse Diffractive Optics: Asymptotic Technique for Light of Any State of Coherence.- Demonstration of a Coherent Thermal Source.- Image Reconstruction in Scalar Wave Optics.- High Depth of Field Microscopy with an Interferometric Imaging System.- On the Nonlinear Orbital Motion of the Driven Two-Photon Jaynes-Cummings Model.- Jaynes-Cummings Model with Moving Phased Atoms.- Dynamics of Two Atoms Coupled to a Cavity Field.- Pattern Formation, Localization and Coherent Structures in Nonlinear Wave Dynamics.- Stochastic Simulations and Discreteness of Light.- From the Ordinary Threshold Regime to Ideal Thresholdless Lasing.- Criticality and Dynamics of Quantum Fluctuations in an OPO.- Quantum Deflection of Ultracold Atoms by Ideal Mirrors.- Spontaneous Emission Near Metal-Coated Dielectric Cylindrical Structures.- Time-Frequency Wigner Function of Ultrashort Light Pulses.- Rotation Angle of the Wigner Distribution Functionof the Partially Coherent Fractional Fourier Field.- Quasiclassical Calculations of Wigner Functions in Nonlinear Dynamics via Wavelets.- Quantum Correlations in a Passive Nonlinear Optical Fiber Resonator.- Time Asymmetry in Measurements Based on Photoelectric Detection.- Photon Correlations in the Homodyne Detection of Squeezed Light.- Rigorous Analysis of Homodyne Detection.- Joint Quantum Measurement Using Unbalanced Array Detection.- A New View of Bell’s Inequalities.- An Experiment for Testing de Broglie-Bohm Theory Against Standard Quantum Mechanics.- Bell’s Inequalities for Multiphoton States.- Testing Bell Inequalities in Photonic Crystals.- On the Detection of Single Mode Quantum Coherence at Optical Frequencies.- Soliton Interaction Control in Coherently Excited Three-Level System Embedded in a Nonlinear Waveguide.- Nonexponential Decoherence of Coherent State Superposition in Degenerate Optical Parametric Amplifier.- Decoherence Control by Homodyne-Mediated Feedback.- QuantumControl of Population Inversion in the Presence of Spontaneous Emission.- Decoherenceof a Trapped Ion: The Combined Effect of the Micromotion and the Stray Fields on the Fidelity of Motional States.- Coherent Control of the Excitation Routes in Four-Wave Mixing with Rdyberg Levels.- Cold Collision Control in Cavity QED.- Wave Packet Control in the Fourier Time Basis.- VacuumNoise in Presence of Atoms.- Quantum Interference Effect in Molecular Systems.- Lighting a Dark State by Shaping of Light-Induced Potentials.- Dynamical Creation of Entanglement by Feedback.- State-Selective Phase Control of Molecular Wave Packets in Two Electronic States.- Quasimodes and Pseudomodes in Structured Reservoirs.- Pulse Generationin Vibrating Cavities.- New Ultra-Bright Source of Entangled Photons.-Source of Photon-Number-Squeezed Light with Adjustable Level of Squeezing.- High-Visibility Two-Photon Interference in Femtosecond Pulse Pumped Type-II SPDC.- Four Photon Entanglement from Parametric Down Conversion.- Observation of Time-Dependent Inhibited Spontaneous Emission.- Conditional Coherence via Phase-Sensitive Post-Selection.- Quantum Descriptions of Light Propagation in a Parametric Amplifier.- Higher Order Photon Statistics of Intracavity Second Harmonic Generation.- Observation of Nonclassical Photon Statistics in Two-Photon Interference.- Demonstration of the Complementarity on One- and Two-Photon Interference.- The Role of Hyperentanglement in Quantum Interferometry.- Eliminating Frequency and Space-Time Entanglement in Multi-Photon States.- OPO in Transverse Degenerate Cavities: Multimode Operation and Spatial Quantum Effects.- Optical Patterns Sustained by Quantum Noise.- Continuously Induced Coherence and Quantum Zeno Effect.- Towards a Quantum Zeno Tomography.- Separability of Gaussian States.- Wigner Function Dynamics on the Sphere.- An Experiment on the Stimulated Emission of the Evanescent Photon.- Nonclassical Measure of Multi-Mode Radiation Field.- Generation of States with Holes in the Photon Distribution at Controlled Positions.- The Spin-Orbit Decomposition of the Angular Momentum of Free Electromagnetic Fields is Artificial.- Heisenberg Equation-of-Motion Methods Applied to Non-Markovian Open Systems.- A Phase Operator from Discretized Complete Set of Coherent States.- Dynamics of a Two-Photon Laser.- The Principles of Active Spectroscopy of Elastic Light Scattering.- Off-Diagonal Radiative-Decay-Coupled Optical Transitions in Double Quantum Wells.- Forward Four-Wave Mixing Mediated by a Kerr Nonlinearity.- Honeycomb Pattern Formation by Laser-Beam Filarpentation in Atomic Sodium Vapor.- Initiation of Superfluorescence: Collectiveand Noncollective Emission.- Frequency Offset Locking of 35 mW of 657 nm Visible Laser Diodes.- Collective Interaction Between Radiation and Atoms: Phase Transition, Optical Gratings and the Influence of the Modeling Hypothesis.- Local Field Effects on the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Broad-Area Two-Level Lasers.- Dynamics of Multiple-Collapse with Ultrashort Laser Pulses.- Spectroscopic Methods for Subwavelength Atom Localization.- Laser Accelerating of Neutral Atoms: Vecksler-Macmillan Phase Stability.- Self-Pulsing in an Optical Ring Cavity Coupled with Three-Level Atoms.- Matter-Wave Mixing by Optical Cavity Fields.- Saturation Law and the Resonance Fluorescence Spectrum of a Forced Two-Level Atom Described by Modified Optical Bloch Equations.- Efficient 1-D Velocity Selection in Laser-Cooled Atom Clouds.- Integrability, Chaos and Mixed Phase-Space in Atom Optics Billiards.- Atom Lasers, Coherent States, and Coherence.- Atom Laser Dynamics.- Atom-Laser Line-Narrowing by Feedback.- Coherence in an Optically Trapped Fermi Gas.- Phonon Excitations and Stability of a Bose-Fermi Mixture Quantum Gas.- Slow Polaritons in Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates.- Master Equation Approach for an Ideal Bose Gas.- Monopole Charge Distributions of Rotating Condensates.- Observation of Vortex Phase Singularities in Stirred Bose-Einstein Condensates.- Inner-Shell X-Ray Lasing without Population Inversion.- Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Three-Level Inversionless Lasers.- Spectral Width of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Hot Atomic Gases.- Absorptive Photon Switching by Quantum Interference.- Coherent VUV and XUV Production Enhanced by EIT.- Laser Cooling of an EIT Material Inside a Double Cavity.- Lambda Propagation Laws.- Signal Velocity and Quantum Fluctuation in Superluminal Light Pulse Propagation.- Slow Light in a Solid without Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency.- Electromagnetically Induced Transparency with Standing-Wave Drive in the Frequency Up-Conversion Regime.- Pulse Propagation in a High-Gain Bichromatically-Driven Raman Amplifier.- Superluminal Nonlinear Anti-Echoes.- On the Collisional Cooling of Co-Trapped Atomic and Molecular Ions by Ultracold Atoms: Ca+ + Na and Na2+(v*,J*)+ Na.- Mandel’s Q-Parameters for the Outcoming Atom Statistics of a Micromaser.- Finite Temperature Correlations in the Trapped Bose-Einstein Gas.- Quantum Solitons as Possible Qubits.- Manifestation of Classical Phase in a Single Spontaneously Emitted Photon.- Dynamics of Single-Atom, Single-Photon Trapping in Cavity QED.- Entanglement in Cascaded-Crystal Parametric Down-Conversion.- Absorption Spectra of the Four Level N System with Two Strong Fields, in Laser-Cooled Rubidium.- From Local to Nonlocal Entanglement.- Leonard Mandel Symposium.- A Thumb-Nail Sketch of the Career of Professor Leonard Mandel.- Dye and Ring Laser Experiments. Or: Photon Statistics of Lasers and Atoms (and a Whole Lot of Other Stuff).- Parametric Down-Conversion: The Twins are Born for a Life of Entanglement.- The Quantum Phase — A New Theory Meets Experiment.- Parametric Downconversion II — The Twins Grow Up.

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