Quantum Optics - Softcover

Scully, Marlan O.; Zubairy, M. Suhail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521435951 ISBN 13: 9780521435956

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Quantum optics has witnessed significant theoretical and experimental developments in recent years. This book provides an in-depth and wide-ranging introduction to the subject, emphasizing throughout the basic principles and their applications. The book begins by developing the basic tools of quantum optics, and goes on to show the application of these tools in a variety of quantum optical systems, including lasing without inversion, squeezed states, and atom optics. The final four chapters discuss quantum optical tests of the foundations of quantum mechanics, and particular aspects of measurement theory. Assuming only a background of standard quantum mechanics and electromagnetic theory, and containing many problems and references, this book will be invaluable to graduate students of quantum optics, as well as to researchers in this field.

About this title

Book Description:

The field of quantum optics has witnessed significant theoretical and experimental developments in recent years. Assuming only a background of standard quantum mechanics and electromagnetic theory, this text provides an in-depth and wide-ranging introduction to the subject.

About the Author:

Marlan O. Scully holds joint appointments at Texas A&M and Princeton Universities. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. During the course of his life work on the foundations and applications of quantum mechanics, he has come to know many of the pioneers in the field and has collected biographical material on them, which R. Scully has woven into this book.
Robert J. Scully is a heavy equipment diesel mechanic living and working in Irving, Texas, where he is employed by the Caterpillar Corporation. His academic connections include the University of New Mexico and the University of Texas at Dallas. He was a tank diesel mechanic in the marine corps from 1988 to 1993. Robert Scully writes biographies for the National Academy of Sciences, including one on William Hewlett of the Hewlett Packard Corporation and one on quantum physicist Leonard Mandel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0521435951
• ISBN 13: 9780521435956
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 656