Meystre, P.

Elements of Quantum Optics / P. Meystre - 3rd ed. - New York : Springer, 2006 - xii, 432 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [416]-423) and index

1. Classical electromagnetic fields
2. Classical nonlinear optics
3. Quantum mechanical background
4. Mixtures and the density operator
5. CW field interactions
6. Mechanical effects of light
7. Introduction to laser theory
8. Optical bistability
9. Saturation spectroscopy
10. Three and four wave mixing
11. Time-varying phenomena in cavities
12. Coherent transient
13. Field quantization
14. Interaction between atoms and quantized fields
15. System-reservoir interactions
16. Resonance florescence
17. Squeezed states of light
18. Cavity quantum electrodynamics
19. Quantum theory of a laser



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