J.H. Eberly (ed.) / L. Mandel / E. Wolf

Coherence and Quantum Optics VI

Proceedings of the Sixth Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics Held at the University of Rochester, June 26-28, 1989
Herausgegeben:Eberly, J. H.; Mandel, L.; Wolf, E.

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Produktbeschreibung

The sixth Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics was held at the Campus of the University of Rochester during the three-day period June 26-28, 1989. This Conference was a sequel to five earlier meetings in this series, held in 1960, 1966, 1972, 1977 and 1983. The latest meeting was by far the largest. There were 327 registrants from 26 different countries. Altogether 252 papers were presented in 45 sessions. There were also 22 poster papers. This volume contains an abbreviated version of most of the papers presented at the meeting. The Conference was organized by a Program Committee consisting of the following: F.T. Arecchi (Istit. Naz. d'Ott., Firenze) N. Bloembergen (Harvard U.) C. Cohen-Tannoudji (Ecole Normale Superieure) H. Haken (U. Stuttgart) S. Haroche (Yale and Ecole Normale Supeneure) A.L. Schawlow (Stanford U.) C.R. Stroud, Jr. (U. of Rochester) D.F. Walls (U. of Auckland) H. Walther (Max-Planck-Inst. and U. MUnchen) J.H. EberlY] L. Mandel Joint Secretaries (U. of Rochester) E. Wolf v The Conference was sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, by the Optical Society of America, by the American Physical Society and by the University of Rochester. We wish to use this opportunity to thank all of the sponsors for their support.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-306-43485-3
• 1989
• Seitenzahl: 1348
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm
• Gewicht: 2260g
• ISBN-13: 9780306434853
• ISBN-10: 0306434857
• Artikelnr.: 27651427

Inhaltsangabe

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 States by Conditional Measurement.- Observation of Chaos in a Passive Nonlinear Resonator.- Optically Induced Coherent Spin Transients in an Atomic Ground State.- Stability Analysis of Active Mode-Locking through Loss Modulation.- Continuous and Discontinuous Phase Transitions in the Laser with a Saturable Absorber.- Polaritons and Retarded Interactions in Nonlinear Optical Susceptibilities.- Monolithic Optical Parametric Oscillators for Quantum Optics.- Instabilities of a Coupled Cavity Laser.- Spatial Instabilities and Symmetry Breaking in Lasers.- Exact Quantum Theory of a Rydberg Atom in Cavities of Arbitrary Q at Finite Temperature T, and the 85Rb Atom Maser.- Depletion Effects in Second Harmonic Generation with a Partially Coherent Beam.- Tunneling and Resonances in MIE Scattering.- Frequency Locking, Quasiperiodicity and Chaos in Modulated External Cavity Injection Lasers.- Adiabatic Elimination for Laser Equations via Center Manifold Theory.- On the Phase-Space Approach to Squeezed Phenomena in Quantum Optics.- Optical Phase Information Due to the Vacuum in Two-Photon Down-Conversion.- Transient Response of a Two-Level Atom to Bichromatic Excitation with Pump Detuning.- Correlated Decay of Atoms Interacting with Broad Band Squeezed Light.- Transverse Modulational Instabilities in Kerr Media.- Subharmonic Bifurcation Route to Chaos in Asymmetric External Cavity Semiconductor Lasers.- The Effect of Dissipation on Macroscopic Quantum Coherence in a Double Well System.- Quantum Theory of Nondegenerate Four-Wave Mixing in Semiconductor Media.- Exact Geometrical Description of Free Space Radiative Energy Transfer for Scalar Wavefields.- Squeezed State Generation and Nonclassical Correlations in Nondegenerate Parametric Down Conversion.- Principal Squeezing in Optical Devices.- Gas Ring Lasers with Backscattering: One-Time Statistical Properties and Intensity Correlation Functions.- Fractal Properties of the Rotating Wave Van der Pol Oscillator with Phase.- Instabilities in Degenerate Subharmonic Generation.- Correlation Functions of a He:Ne Laser with Multiplicative White Noise.- How Strongly Can We Correlate Two Optical Fields?.- Brillouin Enhanced Reflectivity for Different Intensity Pump Waves.- Generalized Jump Model for Phase Fluctuations in Nonlinear Optics.- Light Forces and Atom Diffraction - An Illustrated Summary.- Collective Dynamical Statistical, and Equilibriim Properties of N Rydberg Atoms Making Two-Photon Transitions.- On the Characteristics of Rabi Oscillations in a Coherently Prepared Two Level Atom in the Binomial State of the Field.- Wigner Distribution Function for Optical Fields and Its Application to the Detection of Squeezed States.- Quantum Statistical Analysis of Superfluorescence and Amplified Spontaneous Emission in the Dense Atomic Systems.- G(2) (0) and the Two-Photon Transition Rate: An Experimental Study.- Spatially Separated Two Color Photons in Fourth Order Interference.- Temporal Quantum Fluctuations in Stimulated Raman Scattering.- Optical Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Correlations.- Nonclassical Radiation in the One-Atom Maser.- A Semi-Classical Linear Input Output Transformation for Quantum Fluctuations.- Quasiprobabilities for the Jaynes-Cummings Model with Damping.- Strong Field Ionization in Classical and Quantum Dynamics.- Atomic Systems Driven by Colored Squeezed Light.- Amplitude and Phase Dynamics of Superradiant and Raman Pulse Trains.- Absorptive Optical Bistability in Two-State Atoms.- Spontaneous Spatial Symmetry Breaking in a Fabry-Perot Cavity.- Resonance Behavior of a Two-Level Atom Driven by Amplitude- or Frequency-Modulated Fields.- Intrinsic Optical Bistability in a Cavity.- On the Quantum Malus Law for Photon and Spin Quantum Correlations.- Theory of the Correlated-Spontaneous-Emission Laser.- A New Projection-Operator Method for Treating Interactions of Atoms with Radiation Field.- Deviations from Exponential Decay in the Spontaneous Emission by a Two-Level Eydrogenic Atom.- Collective Radiation Inhibition Effects in the Many-Atom Jaynes-Cummings Model.- A New Number-Phase Uncertainty Principle.- Coherent Phase States and Squeezed Phase States.- Geometric Representation for Squeezing: the abcd-Law.- Geometric Phase in Optics: Some Pedestrian Considerations.- Intensity Fluctuation Suppression in Injection - Locked Dye Ring Laser.- Radiation from an Atom Located in the Vicinity of Dielectric - Space-Time Analysis.- Schrödinger Kittens from Optical Back-Action Evasion.- Superradiant Effects in Photon Echo Decays - The Superradiant Echo.- Photon Band Structure.- Quantum Fluctuations in the Stimulated Raman Scattering Spectrum.- Experimental Test of the Optical Block Equations for Solids Using Free Induction Decay and Hole-Burning.- Bistability and Optically Induced Switching of Spatial Field Patterns in a Laser.- Transverse Mode Structure of Laser Beams Determined from Spatial Coherence.- Transient Spectrum of Two Level Atoms Interacting with Amplitude Modulared Intense Radiation.- A Theory for Second Harmonic Generation in Dense Atomic Vapour.- Two Pulse Nonlinear Excitations in Optical Fibers.- On the Theory of Slow Identical Atom Collisions in a Radiation Field.- Bistable and Sustained Oscillatory Behaviour of Coherently Pumped Three Level CW Laser.- Bidirectional Laser with an Injected Signal: An Optical Switch.- Nonlinear Interaction of Modes in the Ring Laser with a Saturable Absorber.- Photon Counting Statistics of Squeezed Light.- Transient and Spectral Properties of Several Rydberg Atoms in a Squeezed Vacuum.- Amplitude Noise Reduction in Quietly Pumped Lasers.- Coherence Properties of Light Propagating in a One-Dimensional Lorentz Medium.- Resonance Fluorescence, Amplitude Modulation and Fibonacci Numbers.- Quantum Noise Reduction in Photodetection Processes.- Instabilities and Chaos in Phase Locked Semiconductor Laser Arrays.- Quantum Jumps and Continuous Observations.- Optical Resonance Equations in the Presence of Strong Radiation and Shot-Noise Collisions.- On the Possibility of Generating Doppler-Like Frequency Shifts of Spectral Lines by Scattering from Space-Time Fluctuations.- Photoelectron Counting Statistics for the Degenerate Parametric Oscillator.- Macroscopic Quantum Jumps from a Two Atom System.- Enhanced and Inhibited Spontaneous Emission of Free Excitons in GaAs Quantum Wells in a Micro Cavity.- The Production and Detection of Spatially Localized Atomic Electron Wave Packets.- Efficient Photon Number Detection.- Hanle Effect in Frequency Dependent Photon Reservoir.- Multimode Semiconductor Laser Theory with Application to Sidemode Generation.- Photostatistics of Continuous-Wave Squeezed Light.- Lasing without Inversion Due to Initial Coherence between Lower Atomic States.- Polarization of Dressed Atom-Field States in the Transient and Steady-State Regimes.- Experimental Study of the Fluorescence Spectrum Emitted by Two-Level Atoms under Strong Bichromatic Excitation.- Author Index.