Quantum Optics, Experimental Gravity, and Measurement Theory

The Glorious Days of Physics.- The Glorious Days of Physics.- Foundations.- to General Relativity.- Review of the Quantum Mechanical Measurement Problem.- On State Reduction and Observation in Quantum Optics: Wigner’s Friends and Their Amnesia.- Information Transfer in Quantum Measurements: Irreversibility and Amplification.- To Fathom Space and Time.- Elementary Quantum Phenomenon as Building Unit.- A Measure of the Distinguishability of Quantum States.- What is an Electron? Relativistic Electron Theory and Radiative Processes.- Methods of Quantum Optics.- to Stochastic Processes.- Fluctuations in Quantum Optical Systems.- Quantum Fluctuations in Non Linear Optics.- Quantum Communication, Quantum Measurement, TCS and QND.- Phase Conjugate Optics and Applications to Interferometry and to Laser Gyros.- Selected Topics of Laser Spectroscopy of Atoms and Molecules.- Experimental Gravitation.- Experimental Gravity, Gravitational Waves, and Quantum Nondemolition: An Introduction.- Some Remarks on the Interaction Between Precision Physical Measurement and Fundamental Physical Theories.- Proper Time Experiments in Gravitational Fields with Atomic Clocks, Aircraft, and Laser Light Pulses.- Laser Ranging to Retro-Reflectors on the Moon as a Test of Theories of Gravity.- The Meaning of the Lunar Laser Ranging Experimental Results for Gravitational Theory.- Gravitational Wave Detectors Using Laser Interferometers and Optical Cavities: Ideas, Principles and Prospects.- Gravitational Wave Detectors Using Laser Interferometers and Optical Cavities: Some Practical Aspects and Results.- The Munich Gravitational Wave Detector Using Laser Interferometry.- Quantum Nondemolition Measurements.- On the Quantum-Non-Demolition Measurement of the Energy of Optical Quanta.- Detection ofExternal Force on an Oscillator by Measurement of Its Coordinate Integral.- Readout State Preparation and Quantum Non-Demolition.- Quantum Noise in the Interferometer Detector.- Quantum Noise and QND Measurements.- Non Back-Reacting Instrumentation for Low-Temperature Gravitational Wave Detectors.- Testing General Relativity Using Quantum Interference.- Generalized Space Time Parametric Processing Arrays and Relativistic Experiments.