Introduction to quantum optics from light quanta to quantum teleportation

• Main Author: Paul, Harry, 1931-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Subjects: Photons.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9780521835633; 9780511648212; 9780511194757; 9780511193316; 9780511616754; 9780511194016
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (xii, 241 p.) : ill.

This textbook provides a physical understanding of what photons are and of their properties and applications. Special emphasis is made in the text to entangled photon pairs which exhibit quantum mechanical correlations over manifestly macroscopic distances. Such photon pairs make possible such excit...

Table of Contents:

• Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Historical milestones; 3 Basics of the classical description of light; 4 Quantum mechanical understanding of light; 5 Light detectors; 6 Spontaneous emission; 7 Interference; 8 Photon statistics; 9 Squeezed light; 10 Measuring distribution functions; 11 Optical Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiments; 12 Quantum cryptography; 13 Quantum teleportation; 14 Summarizing what we know about the photon; 15 Appendix. Mathematical description; References; Index.