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Book celebrating and honouring the work and life of Professor Herbert Walther. Areas of emphasis include quantum optics, in general, and BEC, atomic coherence, quantum interference, etc. in particular. ?· Pulls vast amount of information together in cohesive, easy to understand manner ?· Written by people who know and are familiar with Herbert Walther's work?· Comprehensive articles?· New developments

Author(s): G. Rempe and M.O. Scully (Eds.)
Series: Advances In Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics 53
Edition: 1
Publisher: Elsevier, Academic Press
Year: 2006

Language: English
Pages: 1-466
Tags: Физика;Периодика по физике;Advances in atomic, molecular, and optical physics;

Content:
Contents
Pages vii-x

Contributors
Pages xi-xiii

Preface
Pages xvii-xviii
Girish Agarwal, Wolfgang Schleich, Gerhard Rempe, Marlan Scully

Non-Classical Light from Artificial Atoms Review Article
Pages 1-32
Thomas Aichele, Matthias Scholz, Sven Ramelow, Oliver Benson

Quantum Chaos, Transport, and Control—in Quantum Optics Review Article
Pages 33-73
Javier Madroñero, Alexey Ponomarev, André R.R. Carvalho, Sandro Wimberger, Carlos Viviescas, Andrey Kolovsky, Klaus Hornberger, Peter Schlagheck, Andreas Krug, Andreas Buchleitner

Manipulating Single Atoms Review Article
Pages 75-104
Dieter Meschede, Arno Rauschenbeutel

Spatial Imaging with Wavefront Coding and Optical Coherence Tomography Review Article
Pages 105-138
Thomas Hellmuth

The Quantum Properties of Multimode Optical Amplifiers Revisited Review Article
Pages 139-149
G. Leuchs, U.L. Andersen, C. Fabre

Quantum Optics of Ultra-Cold Molecules Review Article
Pages 151-186
D. Meiser, T. Miyakawa, H. Uys, P. Meystre

Atom Manipulation in Optical Lattices Review Article
Pages 187-225
Georg Raithel, Natalya Morrow

Femtosecond Laser Interaction with Solid Surfaces: Explosive Ablation and Self-Assembly of Ordered Nanostructures Review Article
Pages 227-251
Juergen Reif, Florenta Costache

Characterization of Single Photons Using Two-Photon Interference Review Article
Pages 253-289
T. Legero, T. Wilk, A. Kuhn, G. Rempe

Fluctuations in Ideal and Interacting Bose–Einstein Condensates: From the Laser Phase Transition Analogy to Squeezed States and Bogoliubov Quasiparticles Review Article
Pages 291-411
Vitaly V. Kocharovsky, Vladimir V. Kocharovsky, Martin Holthaus, C.H. Raymond Ooi, Anatoly Svidzinsky, Wolfgang Ketterle, Marlan O. Scully

LIDAR-Monitoring of the Air with Femtosecond Plasma Channels Review Article
Pages 413-441
Ludger Wöste, Steffen Frey, Jean-Pierre Wolf

Index
Pages 443-452

Contents of volumes in this serial
Pages 453-466