Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 1st Edition, 10/26/1995
EAN 9780521417112, ISBN10: 0521417112
Hardcover, 1194 pages, 25.9 x 18.6 x 5 cm
Language: English
This book presents a systematic account of optical coherence theory within the framework of classical optics, as applied to such topics as radiation from sources of different states of coherence, foundations of radiometry, effects of source coherence on the spectra of radiated fields, coherence theory of laser modes, and scattering of partially coherent light by random media. The book starts with a full mathematical introduction to the subject area and each chapter concludes with a set of exercises. The authors are renowned scientists and have made substantial contributions to many of the topics treated in the book. Much of the book is based on courses given by them at universities, scientific meetings and laboratories throughout the world. This book will undoubtedly become an indispensable aid to scientists and engineers concerned with modern optics, as well as to teachers and graduate students of physics and engineering.
Preface
1. Elements of probability theory
2. Random (or stochastic) processes
3. Some useful mathematical techniques
4. Second-order coherence theory of scalar wavefields
5. Radiation from sources of any state of coherence
6. Second-order coherence theory of vector electromagnetic fields
7. Some applications of second-order coherence theory
8. Higher-order correlations in optical fields
9. Semiclassical theory of photoelectric detection of light
10. Quantization of the free electromagnetic field
11. Coherent states of the electromagnetic field
12. Quantum correlations and photon statistics
13. Radiation from thermal equilibrium sources
14. Quantum theory of photoelectric detection of light
15. Interaction between light and a two-level atom
16. Collective atomic interactions
17. Some general techniques for treating interacting systems
18. The single-mode laser
19. The two-mode ring laser
20. The linnear light amplifier
21. Squeezed states of light
22. Some quantum effects in nonlinear optics
References
Author index
Subject index.