This book offers a didactic introduction to lightβmatter interactions at both the classical and semi-classical levels. Pursuing an approach that describes the essential physics behind the functionality of any optical element, it acquaints students with the broad areas of optics and photonics. Its ri
Light-matter interaction
β Scribed by John Weiner, P.-T. Ho
- Publisher
- Wiley-VCH
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 243
- Edition
- Wiley
- Category
- Library
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π SIMILAR VOLUMES
<span>Our understanding of the interaction of light and matter has a long history that evolved from the ancient corpuscular theory to wave theory and finally to the quantum theory. Matter is composed of charged particles, and among these particles are positively charged nuclei surrounded by electron
<span>Regarding the positive aims of this course, they are: to discuss how to model the quantum behaviour of coupled light and matter; to introduce some simple models that can be used to describe such systems; to dis- cuss methods for open quantum systems that arise naturally in the context of coupl
<p>This book is devoted primarily to the various kinds of resonant nonlinear inΒ teractions of light with two-level (or, in many cases, multilevel) systems. The interactions can involve one-photon as well as multiphoton processes in which some combinations of frequencies of participating photons are