Fundamentals of Quantum Optics III: Proceedings of the Fifth Meeting on Laser Phenomena Organized by the Institute for Theoretical Physics University of Innsbruck, Austria, 7–13 March 1993

M. Sigel, T. Pfau, C. S. Adams, C. Kurtsiefer (auth.), Fritz Ehlotzky (eds.)354057218X, 9783540572183, 038757218X

Advanced experimental techniques make quantum optics one of the most active fields in probing the fundamental laws of quantum theory. The contributions collected in this volume, by both theoreticians and experimentalists, give an overview of the most recent developments in fundamental quantum optics. Of particular interest is the physics of cooled and trapped particles. Other topics include atomic interferometry, quantum electrodynamics in a cavity, quantum measurement and much more. The level of presentation makes this book intelligible not only to the expert but also to a wide readership from engineering and physics.

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Table of contents :
Optical elements for atoms: A beamsplitter and a mirror….Pages 3-20
Atom interferometry….Pages 21-35
Optical ramsey interferometry with magnesium atoms….Pages 36-50
Momentum transfer by adiabatic passage in a light field….Pages 51-59
Atomic waveguides and cavities from hollow optical fibers….Pages 60-74
Towards higher densities of cold atoms: intense slow atom beams and dark light traps….Pages 77-89
Two and three-dimensional optical crystals….Pages 90-104
Multidimensional laser cooling: Quantum approaches….Pages 105-118
Software atom of optical physics….Pages 119-132
Quantum optics with cold atoms….Pages 133-145
Correlations of the resonance fluorescence from a single trapped ion….Pages 146-155
Non-classical states of motion in an ion trap….Pages 156-169
Limits in preparation of coherent population trapping states….Pages 170-184
Adiabatic atomic cooling in cavity QED….Pages 185-194
Quantum electrodynamics in an optical cavity….Pages 197-209
Fock state superpositions in cavity QED with dark atoms….Pages 210-222
Mesoscopic quantum coherences in cavity QED….Pages 223-236
Using the positive P-representation….Pages 239-253
Generating number-phase squeezed states….Pages 254-263
Suppression of photon fluctuations in the light flow under non-linear amplification in a resonant medium layer….Pages 264-275
Quantum statistics of four-wave mixing of nonclassical light with pump depletion….Pages 276-285
Quantum non-demolition measurements in optics and quantum optical repeaters….Pages 289-305
Perfect correlations of three-particle entangled states….Pages 306-319
Irreversibility in quantum dynamical processes….Pages 320-341
On lasing without inversion within the sodium D 1 line….Pages 342-346