A Guide to Experiments in Quantum Optics
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Author(s): H-A Bachor and T. C. Ralph
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 3527403930
Format: softback
420pp
Price: £45.00
Review Date: 10 May 2004
Review: This book guides the reader through the many practical experiments in quantum optics that have been published, and presents and interprets them in a common style. In optics four different visualisations can be used: light as waves, light as photons, light as the solution to operator equations and light as noise propagating through an optical system. These four pictures are used simultaneously and their merits and limitations discussed. There are chapters on: classical models of light; photons; quantum models of light; basic optical components; lasers and amplifiers; photodetection techniques; quantum noise; squeezing experiments; QND; tests of quantum mechanics; and quantum information.