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Series in Optics and Photonics - Vol. 4

RADIATION OF ATOMS IN A RESONANT ENVIRONMENT

by V P Bykov (Academy of Sciences, Moscow)

This book is devoted to the modern problems of quantum optics. Atomic radiations in free space, waveguides, cavities and periodical structures are investigated. The wavepacket quantum-mechanical picture of radiation is stressed and different quantum states of the radiation field are described. The analysis of the appearance of coherence in lasers is followed by a discussion of the connection between the form of the Hamiltonian and the initial conditions in the radiation problems. The quantum theory of interference is also given and causality in the radiation process is investigated, and the resolvent method for radiation problems is also described. A new type of laser generator with an extremely narrow spectrum is then proposed. Finally, problems of the quantum-mechanical description of macroscopic body movement are discussed in connection with the observation of squeezed light.


Contents:

  • Interaction of Electromagnetic Field with Electron
  • Two Forms of the Hamiltonian and the Initial Conditions in Radiation Problems
  • Harmonic Oscillator
  • Basic Ideas of a Resolvent Method in a Perturbation Theory. Radiation in Free Space
  • Excitation Transfer between Atoms
  • Atomic Radiation in Cavities and Waveguides
  • Atomic Radiation in an Environment with a Band Spectrum
  • Atomic Radiation in the Laser Conditions, Quantum-Mechanical State of Laser Radiation and the Appearance of Coherence
  • Quantum Theory of Interference. Connection of the Quantum State of the Beams with Their Interference Picture
  • Quantum Mechanical Description of Macroscopic Body Movement in Connection with the Observation of the Nonclassical (Squeezed) Light


Readership: Researchers in optics.

224pp Pub. date: Jan 1994
ISBN 978-981-02-1092-2
981-02-1092-2
US$51 / £35
ISBN 978-981-02-3871-1(pbk)
981-02-3871-1(pbk)
US$38 / £24
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