Quantum Optics
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The field of quantum optics has witnessed significant theoretical and experimental developments in recent years. This book provides an in-depth and wide-ranging introduction to the subject, emphasising throughout the basic principles and their applications. The book begins by developing the basic tools of quantum optics, and goes on to show the application of these tools in a variety of quantum optical systems, including lasing without inversion, squeezed states and atom optics. The final four chapters are devoted to a discussion of quantum optical tests of the foundations of quantum mechanics, and to particular aspects of measurement theory. Assuming only a background of standard quantum mechanics and electromagnetic theory, and containing many problems and references, this book will be invaluable to graduate students of quantum optics, as well as to researchers in this field.
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If the pump rate Γ_P well exceeds the Rabi frequency Ω_R, the emitter dynamics can be adiabatically eliminated and coherent Rabi oscillations are replaced by irreversible emission into the cavity mode.
“If the pump rate Γ P well exceeds the Rabi frequency Ω R , the dynamics of the emitter can be adiabatically eliminated and the coherent Rabi oscillations typical of the Jaynes-Cummings model of cavity-QED [51,57] are replaced by an irreversible emission into the cavity mode.”
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- Authors
- Scully, M. O., & Zubairy, M. S.
- Affiliations
- Texas A&M University (US)
- Quaid-i-Azam University (PK)
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1997-09-04
- OpenAlex
- W2211778065
- Cited by
- 6,589
- References
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- Citations by year
- 2026: 269 · 2025: 377 · 2024: 296 · 2023: 264 · 2022: 258 · 2021: 271 · 2020: 326 · 2019: 337 · 2018: 309 · 2017: 293 · 2016: 319 · 2015: 281 · 2014: 271 · 2013: 306 · 2012: 261
- FWCI
- 16.24
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum optics and atomic interactions
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Mechanics and Applications
- Keywords
- quantum optics, lasing without inversion, squeezed states, atom optics, quantum foundations, measurement theory, quantum optical systems
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