Introduction to Quantum Optics - From Light Quanta to Quantum Teleportation

✍ Scribed by Paul, Harry

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 246
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 realization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen type experiments. In addition, non-classical 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter
• Preface
• 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. Summarizing What We Know about the Photon
15. Appendix: Mathematical Description
• References
Index