عنوان

Quantum Statistics of Linear and Nonlinear Optical Phenomena.

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Quantum Statistics of Linear and Nonlinear Optical Phenomena.

[Book]

Jan Peina

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

1991

(421 pages)

1. Introduction.- 2. Quantum Theory of the Electromagnetic Field.- 2.1 Quantum description of the field.- 2.2 Statistical states.- 2.3 Multimode description.- 2.4 Calculation of commutators of the field operators.- 2.5 Time development of quantum states.- 3. Optical Correlation Phenomena.- 3.1 Definition of quantum correlation functions.- 3.2 Properties of quantum correlation functions.- 3.2.1 Analytic properties.- 3.2.2 Spectral properties.- 3.2.3 Wave equations in vacuo.- 3.2.4 Symmetries and inequalities.- 3.2.5 Examples of the second-order degrees of coherence.- 3.3 Quantum coherence.- 3.3.1 Second-order phenomena.- 3.3.2 Higher-order phenomena.- 3.4 Measurements corresponding to antinormally ordered products of field operators - quantum counters.- 3.5 Quantum characteristic functionals.- 3.6 Measurements of mixed-order correlation functions.- 3.7 Photocount distribution and photocount statistics.- 3.8 Determination of the integrated intensity probability distribution from the photocount distribution.- 3.9 Short-time measurements.- 3.10 Bunching and antibunching of photons.- 3.11 Hanbury Brown - Twiss effect - correlation interferometry and correlation spectroscopy.- 4. Coherent-State Description of the Electromagnetic Field.- 4.1 Coherent states of a harmonic oscillator and of the electromagnetic field.- 4.1.1 Definitions.- 4.1.2 Expansions in terms of coherent states.- 4.1.3 Minimum-uncertainty wave packets.- 4.1.4 Properties of the displacement operator

Optics.

Quantum statistics.

Jan Peina

Jan Peina

[Book]

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