{"product_id":"principles-of-laser-spectroscopy-and-quantum-optics-9780691140568","title":"Principles of Laser Spectroscopy and Quantum","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuitable for graduate students studying the interaction of optical fields with atoms, this book provides an introduction to the prototypical problems of radiation fields interacting with two- and three- level atomic systems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Berman and Malinovsky's book can be recommended to graduate students and workers transferring from other areas.\"--D.G.C. Jones, Contemporary Physics \"This high-quality, well-written book is a fine addition to the literature of modern optics... The general style is lucid and entirely fitting for a textbook... In all, this is a splendid book and I am confident that it will be widely received with considerable enthusiasm.\"--David L. Andrews, Optics \u0026amp; Photonics News\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface xv  Chapter 1: Preliminaries 1  Chapter 2: Two-Level Quantum Systems 17  Chapter 3: Density Matrix for a Single Atom 56  Chapter 4: Applications of the Density Matrix Formalism 83  Chapter 5: Density Matrix Equations: Atomic Center-of-Mass Motion, Elementary Atom Optics, and Laser Cooling 99  Chapter 6: Maxwell-Bloch Equations 120  Chapter 7: Two-Level Atoms in Two or More Fields: Introduction to Saturation Spectroscopy 136  Chapter 8: Three-Level Atoms: Applications to Nonlinear Spectroscopy-Open Quantum Systems 159  Chapter 9: Three-Level Atoms: Dark States, Adiabatic Following, and Slow Light 184  Chapter 10: Coherent Transients 206  Chapter 11: Atom Optics and Atom Interferometry 242  Chapter 12: The Quantized, Free Radiation Field 280  Chapter 13: Coherence Properties of the Electric Field 312  Chapter 14: Photon Counting and Interferometry 339  Chapter 15: Atom-Quantized Field Interactions 358  Chapter 17: Optical Pumping and Optical Lattices 402  Chapter 18: Sub-Doppler Laser Cooling 422  Chapter 19: Operator Approach to Atom-Field Interactions: Source-Field Equation 453  Chapter 20: Light Scattering 474  Chapter 21: Entanglement and Spin Squeezing 492  References 506  Bibliography 507  Index 509","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403766767959,"sku":"9780691140568","price":87.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691140568.jpg?v=1730484480","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/principles-of-laser-spectroscopy-and-quantum-optics-9780691140568","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}