Introduction to Quantum Optics
From Light Quanta to Quantum Teleportation
- Author: Harry Paul, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Translator: Igor Jex, FNSPE Czech Technical University of Prague
- Date Published: May 2004
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521835633
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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 exciting techniques as teleportation and quantum cryptography, as well as the physical realisation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen type experiments. In addition, nonclassical properties of light, such as photon antibunching and squeezing, as well as quantum phase measurement and optical tomography are discussed. The author describes relevant experiments and elucidates the physical ideas behind them. This book will be of interest to undergraduates and graduate students studying optics, and to any physicist with an interest in the mysteries of the photon and exciting modern work in quantum cryptography and teleportation.
Read more- First edition in English, with significant new material on the Franson experiment and quantum teleportation
- Describes relevant experiments and elucidates the physical ideas behind them
- Extensive explanations are used in preference to technical formulae
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- Date Published: May 2004
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521835633
- length: 254 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 178 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.66kg
- contains: 37 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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. Summary: what do we know about the photon?
Appendix: mathematical description
References
Index.
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