Principles of Laser Spectroscopy and Quantum Optics / / Vladimir S. Malinovsky, Paul R. Berman.
Principles of Laser Spectroscopy and Quantum Optics is an essential textbook for graduate students studying the interaction of optical fields with atoms. It also serves as an ideal reference text for researchers working in the fields of laser spectroscopy and quantum optics. The book provides a rigo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (544 p.) :; 96 line illus. 5 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 .Preliminaries
- 2. Two-Level Quantum Systems
- 3. Density Matrix for a Single Atom
- 4. Applications of the Density Matrix Formalism
- 5. Density Matrix Equations: Atomic Center-of-Mass Motion, Elementary Atom Optics, and Laser Cooling
- 6. Maxwell-Bloch Equations
- 7. Two-Level Atoms in Two or More Fields: Introduction to Saturation Spectroscopy
- 8. Three-Level Atoms: Applications to Nonlinear Spectroscopy-Open Quantum Systems
- 9. Three-Level Λ Atoms: Dark States, Adiabatic Following, and Slow Light
- 10. Coherent Transients
- 11. Atom Optics and Atom Interferometry
- 12. The Quantized, Free Radiation Field
- 13. Coherence Properties of the Electric Field
- 14. Photon Counting and Interferometry
- 15. Atom-Quantized Field Interactions
- 16. Spontaneous Decay
- 17. Optical Pumping and Optical Lattices
- 18. Sub-Doppler Laser Cooling
- 19. Operator Approach to Atom-Field Interactions: Source-Field Equation
- 20. Light Scattering
- 21. Entanglement and Spin Squeezing
- Index