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| Classical Electromagnetic Fields | |
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| Maxwell's Equations in a Vacuum | |
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| Maxwell's Equations in a Medium | |
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| Linear Dipole Oscillator | |
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| Coherence | |
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| Free-Electron Lasers | |
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| Problems | |
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| Classical Nonlinear Optics | |
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| Nonlinear Dipole Oscillator | |
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| Coupled-Mode Equations | |
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| Cubic Nonlinearity | |
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| Four-Wave Mixing with Degenerate Pump Frequencies | |
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| Nonlinear Susceptibilities | |
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| Problems | |
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| Quantum Mechanical Background | |
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| Review of Quantum Mechanics | |
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| Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory | |
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| Atom-Field Interaction for Two-Level Atoms | |
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| Simple Harmonic Oscillator | |
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| Problems | |
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| Mixtures and the Density Operator | |
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| Level Damping | |
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| The Density Matrix | |
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| Vector Model of Density Matrix | |
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| Problems | |
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| CW Field Interactions | |
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| Polarization of Two-Level Medium | |
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| Inhomogeneously Broadened Media | |
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| Counterpropagating Wave Interactions | |
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| Two-Photon Two-Level Model | |
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| Polarization of Semiconductor Gain Media | |
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| Problems | |
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| Mechanical Effects of Light | |
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| Atom-Field Interaction | |
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| Doppler Cooling | |
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| The Near-Resonant Kapitza-Dirac Effect | |
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| Atom Interferometry | |
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| Problems | |
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| Introduction to Laser Theory | |
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| The Laser Self-Consistency Equations | |
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| Steady-State Amplitude and Frequency | |
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| Standing-Wave, Doppler-Broadened Lasers | |
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| Two-Mode Operation and the Ring Laser | |
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| Mode Locking | |
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| Single-Mode Semiconductor Laser Theory | |
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| Transverse Variations and Gaussian Beams | |
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| Problems | |
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| Optical Bistability | |
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| Simple Theory of Dispersive Optical Bistability | |
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| Absorptive Optical Bistability | |
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| Ikeda Instability | |
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| Problems | |
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| Saturation Spectroscopy | |
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| Probe Wave Absorption Coefficient | |
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| Coherent Dips and the Dynamic Stark Effect | |
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| Inhomogeneously Broadened Media | |
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| Three-Level Saturation Spectroscopy | |
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| Dark States and Electromagnetically Induced Transparency | |
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| Problems | |
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| Three and Four Wave Mixing | |
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| Phase Conjugation in Two-Level Media | |
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| Two-Level Coupled Mode Coefficients | |
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| Modulation Spectroscopy | |
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| Nondegenerate Phase Conjugation by Four-Wave Mixing | |
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| Problems | |
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| Time-Varying Phenomena in Cavities | |
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| Relaxation Oscillations in Lasers | |
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| Stability of Single-Mode Laser Operation | |
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| Multimode Mode Locking | |
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| Single-Mode Laser and the Lorenz Model | |
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| Problems | |
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| Coherent Transients | |
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| Optical Nutation | |
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| Free Induction Decay | |
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| Photon Echo | |
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| Ramsey Fringes | |
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| Pulse Propagation and Area Theorem | |
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| Self-Induced Transparency | |
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| Slow Light | |
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| Problems | |
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| Field Quantization | |
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| Single-Mode Field Quantization | |
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| Multimode Field Quantization | |
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| Single-Mode Field in Thermal Equilibrium | |
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| Coherent States | |
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| Coherence of Quantum Fields | |
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| Quasi-Probability Distributions | |
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| Schrodinger Field Quantization | |
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| The Gross-Pitaevskii Equation | |
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| Problems | |
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| Interaction Between Atoms and Quantized Fields | |
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| Dressed States | |
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| Jaynes-Cummings Model | |
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| Spontaneous Emission in Free Space | |
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| Quantum Beats | |
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| Problems | |
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| System-Reservoir Interactions | |
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| Master Equation | |
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| Fokker-Planck Equation | |
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| Langevin Equations | |
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| Monte-Carlo Wave Functions | |
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| Quantum Regression Theorem and Noise Spectra | |
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| Problems | |
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| Resonance Fluorescence | |
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| Phenomenology | |
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| Langevin Equations of Motion | |
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| Scattered Intensity and Spectrum | |
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| Connection with Probe Absorption | |
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| Photon Antibunching | |
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| Off-Resonant Excitation | |
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| Problems | |
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| Squeezed States of Light | |
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| Squeezing the Coherent State | |
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| Two-Sidemode Master Equation | |
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| Two-Mode Squeezing | |
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| Squeezed Vacuum | |
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| Problems | |
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| Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics | |
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| Generalized Master Equation for the Atom-Cavity System | |
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| Weak Coupling Regime | |
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| Strong Coupling Regime | |
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| Velocity-Dependent Spontaneous Emission | |
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| Input-Output Formalism | |
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| Problems | |
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| Quantum Theory of a Laser | |
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| The Micromaser | |
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| Single Mode Laser Master Equation | |
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| Laser Photon Statistics and Linewidth | |
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| Quantized Sidemode Buildup | |
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| Problems | |
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| Entanglement, Bell Inequalities and Quantum Information | |
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| Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox and Bell Inequalities | |
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| Bipartite Entanglement | |
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| The Quantum Beam Splitter | |
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| Quantum Teleportation | |
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| Quantum Cryptography | |
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| Toward Quantum Computing | |
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| Problems | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |