量子光学

1、EinsteinsTheoryofAtom-RadiationInteraction

1.1TheAandBCoefficients

1.2ThermalEquilibrium

1.3PhotonDistributionandFluctuations

1.4LightBeamIncidentonAtoms

1.5ElementaryLaserTheory

1.5.1ThresholdandPopulationInversion

1.5.2SteadyState

1.5.3LinearStabilityAnalysis

Problems

2、Atom-FieldInteraction:SemiclassicalApproach

2.1Broad-BandRadiationSpectrum

2.2RabiOscillations

2.3BlochsEquations

2.4DecaytoanUnobservedLevel

2.5DecayBetweenLevels

2.6OpticalNutation

Problems

3、QuantizationoftheElectromagneticField

3.1FockStates

3.2DensityofModes

3.3CommutationRelations

Problems

4、StatesoftheElectromagneticFieldⅠ

4.1FurtherProperties

4.1.1CoherentStatesareMinimumUncertaintyStates

4.1.2CoherentStatesarenotOrthogonal

4.1.3CoherentStatesareOvercomplete

4.1.4TheDisplacementOperator

4.1.5PhotonStatistics

4.1.6CoordinateRepresentation

4.2MixedState.ThermalRadiation

Problems

5、StatesoftheElectromagneticFieldⅡ

5.1SqueezedStates.GeneralPropertiesandDetection

5.1.1TheSqueezeOperatorandtheSqueezedState

5.1.2TheSqueezedStateisanEigenstateofA

5.1.3CalculationofMomentswithSqueezedStates

5.1.4QuadratureFluctuations

5.1.5PhotonStatistics

5.2MultimodeSqueezedStates

5.3DetectionofSqueezedStates

5.3.1OrdinaryHomodyneDetection

5.3.2BalancedHomodyneDetection

5.3.3HeterodyneDetection

Problems

6、QuantumTheoryofCoherence

6.1One-AtomDetector

6.2Then-AtomDetector

6.3GeneralPropertiesoftheCorrelationFunctions

6.4YoungsInterferenceandFirst-OrderCorrelation

6.5Second-OrderCorrelations.PhotonBunchingandAntibunching

6.5.1ClassicalSecond-OrderCoherence

6.5.2QuantumTheoryofSecond-OrderCoherence

6.6PhotonCounting

6.6.1SomeSimpleExamples

6.6.2QuantumMechanicalPhotonCountDistribution

6.6.3ParticularExamples

Problems

7、PhaseSpaceDescription

7.1Q-Representation.AntinormalOrdering

7.1.1Normalization

7.1.2AverageofAntinormallyOrderedProducts

7.1.3SomeExamples

7.1.4TheDensityOperatorinTermsoftheFunctionQ

7.2CharacteristicFunction

7.3P-Representation:NormalOrdering

7.3.1Normalization

7.3.2AveragesofNormallyOrderedProducts

7.3.3SomeInterestingProperties

7.3.4SomeExamples

7.4TheWignerDistribution:SymmetricOrdering

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8、Atom-FieldInteraction

9、System-ReservoirInteractions

10、ResonanceFluorescence

11、QuantumLaserTheory.MasterEquationApproach

12、QuantumLaserTheory.LangevinApproach

13、QuantumNoiseReductionⅠ

14、QuantumNoiseReductionⅡ

15、QuantumPhase

16、QuantumTrajectories

17、AtomOptics

18、Measurements,QuantumLimitsandallThat

19、TrappedIons

20、Decoherence

HintsforSolutionsofProblems

References

Index

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