Concepts of Quantum Optics (eBook)
218 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4832-7864-3 (ISBN)
This book is divided into six chapters, and begins with an overview of the principles and concepts of radiation and quanta, with an emphasis on the significance of the Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light. The next chapter describes first the properties of the radiation field in a bounded cavity, showing how each cavity field mode has the characteristics of a simple harmonic oscillator and how each can be quantized using known results for the quantum harmonic oscillator. This chapter also deals with the quantum fluctuations of the radiation field and the interpretation of a photon as an occupation of a normal mode of the system. These topics are followed by discussions of the radiation absorption and emission and the principles of coherent state and coherence functions. The final chapter considers the concept of semi-classical theory and its connection to quantum electrodynamics.
This book is of value to undergraduate and postgraduate students who are starting research in laser physics or quantum optics.
Concepts of Quantum Optics is a coherent and sequential coverage of some real insight into quantum physics. This book is divided into six chapters, and begins with an overview of the principles and concepts of radiation and quanta, with an emphasis on the significance of the Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light. The next chapter describes first the properties of the radiation field in a bounded cavity, showing how each cavity field mode has the characteristics of a simple harmonic oscillator and how each can be quantized using known results for the quantum harmonic oscillator. This chapter also deals with the quantum fluctuations of the radiation field and the interpretation of a photon as an occupation of a normal mode of the system. These topics are followed by discussions of the radiation absorption and emission and the principles of coherent state and coherence functions. The final chapter considers the concept of semi-classical theory and its connection to quantum electrodynamics. This book is of value to undergraduate and postgraduate students who are starting research in laser physics or quantum optics.
Front Cover 1
Concepts of Quantum Optics 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 10
Preface 8
Chapter 1. Radiation and Quanta 12
1.1 The early history of radiation 12
1.2 Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light 13
1.3 Photons and the old quantum theory 14
1.4 Quantum mechanics 20
1.5 Dirac's radiation theory 23
Chapter
25
2.1 Cavity modes 25
2.2 Quantization of a single-mode field 26
2.3 Quantum fluctuations of a single-mode field 29
2.4 Multimode fields 30
2.5 Zero-point energy and vacuum fluctuations 33
2.6 Mode occupation and photons 36
Chapter
38
3.1 Interaction of an atom with a radiation field 38
3.2 Perturbation theory and the Golden Rule 41
3.3 The Rabi model 44
3.4 Excitation of an atom by a quantized radiation field 47
3.5. Induced dipole moments 49
Chapter
55
4.1 Classical coherence 55
4.2 Quantum coherence functions 57
4.3 The Young two-siit experiment 61
4.4 Second-order correlation for single-mode radiation 63
Chapter
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5.1 Phase and superposition 65
5.2 Coherent states 66
5.3 Single mode coherent states 67
5.4 Coherent states as minimum uncertainty states 69
5.5 Quantum field quasiprobabilities 71
5.6 The generator of coherent states 73
5.7 Hanbury-Brown and Twiss intensity correlation 75
Chapter
81
6.1 Semi-classical limits 81
6.2 The relation between semi-classical and quantized Hamiltonians 81
6.3 Importance of quantum fluctuations 84
6.4 Quantum aspects of light 84
References 87
Index 90
Reprinted Papers 99
Reprinted Papers 100
1. Interference Fringes with Feeble Light 102
2. On the Quantum Theory of Radiation 104
3. Take a Photon 116
4. Fine Structure of the Hydrogen Atom by a Microwave Method 125
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7. Interference Fringes Produced by Superposition of Two Independent Maser Light Beams 137
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17. A Simple Field Theoretic Description of Photon Interference 218
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.9.2013 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4832-7864-6 / 1483278646 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4832-7864-3 / 9781483278643 |
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