عنوان

Quantum Statistics of Linear and Nonlinear Optical Phenomena.

(Number (ISBN

9400962487

(Number (ISBN

9401124000

(Number (ISBN

9789400962484

(Number (ISBN

9789401124003

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b593647

Title Proper

Quantum Statistics of Linear and Nonlinear Optical Phenomena.

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Jan Peina

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1991

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(421 pages)

Text of Note

1. Introduction.- 2. Quantum Theory of the Electromagnetic Field.- 2.1 Quantum description of the field.- 2.2 Statistical states.- 2.3 Multimode description.- 2.4 Calculation of commutators of the field operators.- 2.5 Time development of quantum states.- 3. Optical Correlation Phenomena.- 3.1 Definition of quantum correlation functions.- 3.2 Properties of quantum correlation functions.- 3.2.1 Analytic properties.- 3.2.2 Spectral properties.- 3.2.3 Wave equations in vacuo.- 3.2.4 Symmetries and inequalities.- 3.2.5 Examples of the second-order degrees of coherence.- 3.3 Quantum coherence.- 3.3.1 Second-order phenomena.- 3.3.2 Higher-order phenomena.- 3.4 Measurements corresponding to antinormally ordered products of field operators - quantum counters.- 3.5 Quantum characteristic functionals.- 3.6 Measurements of mixed-order correlation functions.- 3.7 Photocount distribution and photocount statistics.- 3.8 Determination of the integrated intensity probability distribution from the photocount distribution.- 3.9 Short-time measurements.- 3.10 Bunching and antibunching of photons.- 3.11 Hanbury Brown - Twiss effect - correlation interferometry and correlation spectroscopy.- 4. Coherent-State Description of the Electromagnetic Field.- 4.1 Coherent states of a harmonic oscillator and of the electromagnetic field.- 4.1.1 Definitions.- 4.1.2 Expansions in terms of coherent states.- 4.1.3 Minimum-uncertainty wave packets.- 4.1.4 Properties of the displacement operator

Optics.

Quantum statistics.

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Jan Peina

Jan Peina

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