TY - BOOK AU - Meystre, P. AU - M. Sargent Ill TI - Elements of Quantum Optics SN - 9788181280145 U1 - 535 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Springer KW - Quantum optics N1 - 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 ER -