Optical Coherence and Quantum OpticsThis book presents a systematic account of optical coherence theory within the framework of classical optics, as applied to such topics as radiation from sources of different states of coherence, foundations of radiometry, effects of source coherence on the spectra of radiated fields, coherence theory of laser modes, and scattering of partially coherent light by random media. |
Contents
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1 Derivation of the asymptotic approximation 5 7103 | 332 |
Secondorder coherence theory of vector electromagnetic fields | 340 |
Problems | 373 |
Higherorder correlations in optical fields | 422 |
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The singlemode laser | 900 |
Problems | 974 |
The linear light amplifier | 1021 |
Squeezed states of light | 1034 |
Semiclassical theory of photoelectric detection of light | 438 |
Quantization of the free electromagnetic field | 465 |
Coherent states of the electromagnetic field | 522 |
Quantum correlations and photon statistics | 573 |
splitter | 644 |
Problems | 657 |
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conversion | 1053 |
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Author index | 1140 |
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