Cambridge University Press, 2004, 241 pages
The purpose of this book is to provide a physical understanding of photons and their properties and applications. Special emphasis is given in the text to photon pairs produced in spontaneous parametric, down-conversion, which exhibit intrinsically quantum mechanical correlations, known as entanglement, and which extend over manifestly macroscopic distances. Such photon pairs are well suited to the physical realization of Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky type experiments, and also make possible such exciting techniques as quantum cryptography and teleportation.
Historical milestones
Basics of the classical description of light
Quantum mechanical understanding of light
Light detectors
Spontaneous emission
Interference
Photon statistics
Squeezed light
Measuring distribution functions
Optical Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen experiments
Quantum cryptography
Quantum teleportation
Summarizing what we know about the photon
The purpose of this book is to provide a physical understanding of photons and their properties and applications. Special emphasis is given in the text to photon pairs produced in spontaneous parametric, down-conversion, which exhibit intrinsically quantum mechanical correlations, known as entanglement, and which extend over manifestly macroscopic distances. Such photon pairs are well suited to the physical realization of Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky type experiments, and also make possible such exciting techniques as quantum cryptography and teleportation.
Historical milestones
Basics of the classical description of light
Quantum mechanical understanding of light
Light detectors
Spontaneous emission
Interference
Photon statistics
Squeezed light
Measuring distribution functions
Optical Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen experiments
Quantum cryptography
Quantum teleportation
Summarizing what we know about the photon