Thefieldofquantumopticshaswitnessedsignificanttheoreticalandexperimentaldevelopmentsinrecentyears.Thisbookprovidesanin-depthandwide-rangingintroductiontothesubject,emphasizingthroughoutthebasicprinciplesandtheirapplications.
Thebookbeginsbydevelopingthebasictoolsofquantumoptics,andgoesontoshowtheapplicationofthesetoolsinavarietyofquantumopticalsystems,includinglasingwithoutinversion,squeezedstatesandatomoptics.Thefinalfourchaptersaredevotedtoadiscussionofquantumopticaltestsofthefoundationsofquantummechanics,andtoparticularaspectsofmeasurementtheory.
Assumingonlyabackgroundofstandardquantummechanicsandelectromagnetictheory,andcontainingmanyproblemsandreferences,thisbookwillbeinvaluabletograduatestudentsofquantumoptics,aswellastoresearchersinthisfield.
本书为英文版。