Quantum Measurements in Optics

✍ Scribed by Roy J. Glauber (auth.), Paolo Tombesi, Daniel F. Walls (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 421
• Series: NATO ASI Series 282
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Quantum Measurements in Optics was held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, January 21-25, 1991. This workshop was attended by 70 participants from 16 different countries. The subjects discussed at this workshop concentrated on quantum measurements in optics made possible by the recent advances in the generation and detection of light with low quantum noise. These advances have occurred simultaneously with the development of atomic traps capable of trapping a single atom for a considerable period of time. The interaction of a single two level atom with the single mode of the electromagnetic field is now possible in high Q microcavities. A new field of cavity QED has developed studying the properties of Rydberg atoms in microwave cavities. At this meeting we heard the first report of an atomic interferometer where a single atom passing through the two slits exhibits wave like interference phenomena. This new field involving the transfer of momentum from photons to atoms has lead to new possibilities for quantum nondemolition measurements on an optical field. We heard suggestions for such measurements at this meeting. With the new light sources available the possibility of using low quantum noise light in optical communications becomes close to reality. The problem of the propagation of quantum light field in optical fibres was actively discussed at this meeting.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Quantum Theory of Particle Trapping by Oscillating Fields....Pages 3-14
Quantum Measurements on Localized Particles....Pages 15-26
Interferometry with Metastable Rare Gas Atoms....Pages 27-40
Quantum Measurements in Atomic Interferometry....Pages 41-54
An Atomic-Beam Quantum-Eraser Gedanken Experiment....Pages 55-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Quantum Mechanical Watch-Dog Effect and Measurement-Induced State Reduction in a Semiconductor Laser....Pages 65-84
Quantum Non-Demolition Measurement of an Optical Intensity in a Three-Level Atomic Non-Linear System....Pages 85-92
The Quantum Measurement Process and the One-Atom Maser....Pages 93-104
Phase-Sensitive Back-Action on a Microscopic System....Pages 105-112
Novel Effects in Quantum Optics....Pages 113-128
Cavity Q.E.D.: Fundamental Theory of the Micromaser and Measurements of its Cavity Field....Pages 129-149
The Action Uncertainty Principle for Continuous Quantum Measurements....Pages 151-163
Cavity QED and Classical Antenna Theory....Pages 165-172
Macroscopic Distinguishable States of Mechanical Oscillators Generated by Quantum Nondemolition Measurements....Pages 173-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Progress and Perspectives in Squeezing....Pages 183-191
Quantum Noise Reduction and Instabilities in Nondegenerate Four-Wave-Mixing....Pages 193-209
Semi-Classical Input-Output Linearization Techniques for Quantum Fluctuations and Beyond....Pages 211-220
Quantum Superpositions: Squeezing and Dissipations....Pages 221-237
Time-Dependent Invariants and Nonclassical Light....Pages 239-246
A Unified Approach to the Quantum Master and Langevin Equations....Pages 247-264
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Rate Equation Approach to Squeezing....Pages 265-269
Quantum Noise Reduction in Lasers by Dynamic Pump Noise Suppression....Pages 271-275
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
Wideband Quantum Communication: A New Frontier?....Pages 279-294
Quantum Mechanical Treatment of a Propagating Optical Beam....Pages 295-311
Direct Space Quantum Optics: Light Propagation in a Nonlinear Medium....Pages 313-322
Quantum Holography, Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging and Computed Tomographic Imaging....Pages 323-343
Photonic Band Structure....Pages 345-351
Information, Quantum Correlations and Communication....Pages 353-355
Front Matter....Pages 357-357
What is Two Photons? Interference and Non-Local Effects Using Photon Pairs....Pages 359-368
Bell’s Theorem without Inequalities and Beyond....Pages 369-375
The Stochastic Interferometry and the Foundations of the Bose-Einstein Statistics....Pages 377-396
Wave Functionals for the Photon Field....Pages 397-407
Tests on the Reality of De Broglie Waves with Two Coherent Photons....Pages 409-412
Quantum Cryptography and Bell’s Theorem....Pages 413-418
Is Complementarity Compatible with Quantum Optics?....Pages 419-426
Back Matter....Pages 427-429

✦ Subjects

Electrical Engineering;Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices;Acoustics;Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics