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  title info:
    title: Elements of Quantum Optics
  name:
    name part: Meystre, Pierre.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Sargent, Murray.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 1991
    edition: Second edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 496 pages)
  abstract: This textbook gives a broad coverage of the basic elements necessary to understand and carry out research in laser physics and quantum optics. It presents a variety of theoretical tools as well as important results for two-level and semiconductor media, many of which could only be found in the original literature or in specialized monographs up to now. An important feature of the text is that it reveals the close connection between many seemingly unrelated or only distantly related topics, such as probe absorption, four-wave mixing, optical instabilities, resonance fluorescence, and squeezing. The introductory chapters deal with selected aspects of classical radiation theory, classical nonlinear optics, and quantum mechanics. Then semiclassical light-matter interactions involved in laser theory, optical bistability and instabilities, saturation spectroscopy, phase conjugation, and coherent transients are discussed. The final chapters treat aspects of quantum optics that require the quantization of the electromagnetic field, including spontaneous emission, resonance fluorescence, "nonclassical fields" and squeezing, and the quantum theory of the laser. The second edition contains a significant number of changes designed to improve clarity. A new section has been added on the theory of resonant light pressure and the manipulation of atomic trajectories by light. The photon-echo problem has been reformulated to reveal its relationship to four-wave mixing.
  note: by Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Physical organic chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Physical organic chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  classification: TA1671-1707
  classification: TA1501-1820
  classification: 621.36
  identifier: 9783662116548 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 3662116545 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9783662116562
  identifier: 3662116561
  identifier: 3662116545
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  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 130411
    record change date: 20260422201600.1
    record identifier: in00003559038
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng