Getting Started in Quantum Optics /

This book, based on classroom-tested lecture notes, provides a self-contained one semester undergraduate course on quantum optics, accessible to students (and other readers) who have completed an introductory quantum mechanics course and are familiar with Dirac notation and the concept of entangleme...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	LaPierre, Ray (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Edition:	1st ed. 2022.
Series:	Undergraduate Texts in Physics,
Subjects:	Quantum optics. Optoelectronic devices. Materials. Photonics. Quantum physics. Telecommunication. Quantum computers. Quantum Optics. Optoelectronic Devices. Photonic Devices. Quantum Imaging and Sensing. Microwaves, RF Engineering and Optical Communications. Quantum Computing. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Canonical Quantization
Chapter 2. Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
Chapter 3. Canonical Quantization of Light
Chapter 4. Fock States and the Vacuum
Chapter 5. Single Photon State
Chapter 6. Single Photon on a Beam Splitter
Chapter 7. Single Photon in an Interferometer
Chapter 8. Entanglement
Chapter 9. Multimode Quantized Radiation
Chapter 10. Coherent State
Chapter 11. Coherent State on a Beam Splitter
Chapter 12. Incoherent State
Chapter 13. Homodyne and Heterodyne Detection
Chapter 14. Coherent State in an Interferometer
Chapter 15. Squeezed Light
Chapter 16. Squeezed Light in an Interferometer
Chapter 17. Heisenberg Limit
Chapter 18. Quantum Imaging
Chapter 19. Light-matter Interaction
Chapter 20. Atomic Clock
Chapter 21. Atom Cooling and Trapping.