Coherence and Quantum Optics VI [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the Sixth Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics held at the University of Rochester, June 26–28, 1989 /

Emission Frequency of a Homogeneously Broadened Laser Operating below Threshold -- Dynamics of the NH3 FIR Laser and the Lorenz Model -- Quantum Theory of Interaction of a Resonant Field with a Nonlinear Medium Modelled as an Anharmonic Oscillator -- Quantum Effects in Light Propagation through a Nonlinear Medium -- Cooperative Modulation Instability in Dispersive Nonlinear Media -- Large Scale Transverse Interactions in Nonlinear Optical System with 2D-Feedback; Generation, Hysteresis and Interaction of Wave Structures -- Single-Atom Cavity-Enhanced Absorption: Steady-State Field in the Strong-Coupling Limit -- Quantum Theory of Multiwave Mixing in a Squeezed Vacuum -- Measuring the Wigner Angle with a Parametric Amplifier -- Delayed Bifurcations in a CO2 Laser with a Slowly Swept Pump -- Experimental Characterization of Shil’nikov Chaos by Statistics of Return Times -- Determination of a Small Photon Number by Statistical Amplifying Transients -- Progress in Modelling Coherently Pumped Far-Infrared Laser Dynamics -- Extraordinary Behavior of Atoms near a Phase Conjugator -- Squeezed Light Generation with an Incoherent Pump -- Three Wave Mixing for Multimode Beams -- Dimensionality Studies of Chaotic Attractors in Laser with Injected Signal -- Applications of the Optical Phase Operator -- Classically Chaotic Near-Classical Microwave Ionization -- Angular Correlations of Bosons and Fermions -- The Physics of Stored Laser Cooled Ion Clusters: Phase Transitions in a System with only a Few Degrees of Freedom -- Theory of the Two-Photon Laser: Cross-Correlation and Laser Thresholds -- Nonclassical Photon Correlations in Cavity QED -- Silicon Avalanche Photodetectors for Quantum Optics Experiments: Sub-Geiger Performance -- Comparisons of Two Theories of Scattering from Quasi-Homogeneous Media -- Photon-Number Distributions for Number-State Homodyne Photomixing at a Lossless Beam Splitter -- Models and Approximations for Instabilities in Standing-Wave Lasers -- Near Threshold Behavior of Multimode CW Dye Lasers with an Amplitude Modulated Pump -- Radiation Theory for Two-Photon Processes -- Behavior of a Ring Laser with Injected Signal near Threshold -- Optical Manifestations of Berry’s Topological Phase: Classical and Quantum Aspects -- Theory and Photon Statistics of a Free Electron Laser -- Investigation of ? Phase Jumps in a Ring Laser -- Phase Fluctuation and Damping in Two-Level Optical Resonance -- Relaxation Problems and Lifetimes in Nonlinear Optical Systems -- Optical Systems Driven by Inputs with Reduced Intensity Fluctuations: A Possible Master Equation Approach -- QED of a Two-Level Atom and Photodetection -- Competion between Counter-Propagating Waves in Laser Dynamics -- Nonlinear Dynamics of a Laser Containing A Modulated Saturable Absorber -- Transition from Classical “Maxwell-Boltzmann” to Quantum, “Bose-Einstein” Partition Statistics by Stochastic Splitting of Degenerate Light -- Strong Photon Localization in Microcavity Stimulated Emission -- Optical Experiments Illustrating the Significance of the Bell Inequalities -- High Intensity Effects in Raman Scattering -- Fluctuation Interferometer as High Angular-Resolution Sensor of Laser Illumination -- Self-Observation and Self-Referral in Lasers: An Analysis of the Transition from Quantum to Classical Behavior -- Mode-Locked Superfluorescence -- The Wigner Function of Two-Mode Squeezed States; Free and Dissipative Evolution -- Coherent Scattering of Light in an Aharonov-Bohm Geometry -- Bloch Electrons in Coherent Light: A New Type of Renormalization -- Coherent Population Trapping and Its Effects on Light-Induced Drift -- Stochastic Resonance in Bistable Systems -- Spontaneous and Induced Emission of Soft Bosons: Exact Non-Markovian Solutions -- Coherence and Interference in Photoionization of a Rydberg Atom -- Photon Antibunching in Spontaneous Emission from Two Nonidentical Atoms -- Excitation into a Quasicontinuum by a Fluctuating Laser Field -- Stimulated Photon Echo Induced by Broad-Bandwidth Pulses -- Scattering of Electromagnetic Fields of Any State of Coherence from Fluctuating Media -- Local and Global Bifurcations of Optically-Pumped Three-Level Lasers -- A New Test of Bell’s Inequality Using Optical Interference -- Soliton Collisions for Quantum Non-Demolition Measurement of Photon Number: The QND Soliton Interferometer -- A Semiclassical Theory of Ultrafast Pump-Probe Spectroscopy: Visualization and Interpretation of Experiment -- Elimination of the Dynamics of the Rotational Levels in a Four-Level CO2 Laser Model -- Quantum Statistical Properties of Optical Phase Conjugation -- Universal Normal-Form Description of Squeezing in Two-Photon Processes -- Microwave Excitation and Ionization of H Atoms at High Scaled Frequencies: Comparisons of Experiments and Theories -- Spectral Changes in Light Propagation from a Class of Partially Coherent Sources -- Phase-Sensitive Light Amplifiers in Stellar Interferometry -- Using Modulation Response to Determine Dynamical Parameters and Appropriate Models for Single-Mode Lasers -- Squeezed Light and the Single Atom -- Atomic Coherent States, Phase Transitions and Squeezing from Rydberg Atoms -- Saturation Behavior of Parametric Four-Wave Mixing Due to Two-Photon Interference Effect -- Bistability and Chaos in Counterpropagating Laser Beams -- Experimental Study of Two-Photon Rabi Oscillations -- Manifestation of Berry’s Phase in Parametric Amplifiers -- Photo-Dynamics of a Single Trapped Three-Level Ion -- Atoms in Cavities -- Optical Correlation Functions and Squeezing in the Jaynes-Cummings Model -- Higher Order Squeezing of Thermal Radiation through Parametric Amplification -- Some Modal Expansions of Partially Coherent Fields -- Two-Photon Transition Driven by Parametrically Down-Converted Light: A Linear Intensity Dependence -- Quantum Noise Initiated Mode-Hopping in Semiconductor Lasers -- Measurement of the Effect of Resonant Light Pressure on the Dispersion Curve of a Gas of Two- Level Atoms -- Detection of Decay Processes and Cavity Fields by Means of Quantum-Jump Statistics -- Diffracting Atoms from Evanescent Light Fields -- Production of a (Phase) Random Telegraph Field -- Composite Materials for Nonlinear Optics: Theory and Experiment -- Test of the Linearity of Quantum Mechanics by RF Spectroscopy of the 9BE+ Ground State -- Gain Noise in Dye Lasers -- Sum and Difference Squeezing -- Excitation of Three-State Atom with Minimum Population of Intermediate State -- Self-Focusing Limitations on Squeezed State Generation in Two-Level Media -- Observations of Sub-Poisson and Poisson Photon Statistics from the Fluorescence of Individual Barium Atoms -- Enhancement of Antibunching in Second Harmonic Generation -- Phase-Dependent Lineshape in Multiple Pump-Probe Interactions -- Comparison of Lorenz-Like Laser Behavior with the Lorenz Model -- Atom-Photon Interaction Modified by a Microwave Cavity -- Influence of the Local Oscillator on Homodyne Detection of Squeezed Vacuum -- Sensitivity to Initial Conditions in Classical and Quantum Dynamics -- Quantum Optics of Single, Trapped Ions -- Generation, Detection and Applications of Sub-Poissonian Light -- The Spectrum of Radiation from a Moving Source of Any State of Coherence -- Intermittency and Chaos in Intracavity Doubled Lasers -- Rectification of the Light Pressure Force Acting on a Three-State Atom -- Optical Second-Harmonic Generation from Jellium. The Collective-Mode Pattern Studied Via the Nonlinear Energy Reflection Coefficient -- Squeezing in Two-Photon Optical Bistability and Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing -- Metric-Perturbed Shifts in Superradiant States -- Optical Second-Harmonic Generation and Rectification in a Superconductor with Cooper-Pairing -- Optical Spectra of a Strongly Coupled System of Atoms in a Cavity Driven by Squeezed Light -- The Squeezing of Fock and Thermal Field States -- Dissipative Quantum Dynamics in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics -- Scaling of Spontaneous Emission and Intermolecular Interactions in a Dielectric Medium Using Polaritons -- Excited-State Relaxation Dynamics in a Continuous Wave Dye Laser -- Temporal Instabilities and Chaos in Photorefractive Four-Wave Mixing -- Diagrammatic Methods for Nonlinear Response of a System Dressed by Resonant External Fields -- Spatial Quantum Fluctuations in Stimulated Raman Scattering -- Field-Matter Interactions in Photonic Bandgaps -- Detection of Squeezed Light by Coherently Superposed Detector States -- Analysis of Super-Gaussian Statistics of N-Harmonic Fields by Nonlinear Gaussian Expansions -- Transient Squeezing and Time-Dependent Spectra of a Strongly Driven Three-Level Atom Undergoing Quantum Jumps -- Delayed Feedback Acting as Noise to Induce Phase Transitions -- Spectral Analysis for the Coherence Collapsed Diode Laser -- On the Analogy between Electrons and Light -- Population Trapping Effect for System with Double Autoionizing Levels -- Information Performance for a Binary Channel with Photoncounting Detection -- Heterodyne Spectrum of the Fluorescence from Optical Molasses -- An Infinite Ladder Coupled to a Quantum Mode; An Exactly Solvable Quantum Model -- Super-Regenerative Laser Receiver -- Very High Order Harmonic Conversion of an Intense YAG Laser Radiation in Rare Gases -- Spatially-Localized Two-Particle Interference at a Beam Splitter -- Comparative Study of Various Quasiprobability Distributions in a Two-Photon Correlated-Emission Laser -- Quantum Theory of Two-Photon Correlated-Spontaneous-Emission Lasers: Exact Atom-Field Interaction Hamiltonian Approach -- Nonlinear Dynamics of Raman Lasers in the Good and Bad Cavity Limit -- A Monte Carlo Study of Superradiance -- Polarization Dynamics in a Quasi-Isotropic Laser -- Understanding Squeezed States and Their Detection Using the Schrodinger Picture. -- Para-Bose Squeezed States -- Measurements, Dynamics and State Preparation in a Micromaser -- Preparation of Nonclassical .

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Eberly, Joseph H. editor., Mandel, Leonard. editor., Wolf, Emil. editor., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Boston, MA : Springer US, 1989
Subjects:	Physics., Electrical engineering., Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices., Electrical Engineering.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0847-8
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