Principles of Laser Spectroscopy and Quantum Optics
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Principles of Laser Spectroscopy and Quantum Optics

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  2. English
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Principles of Laser Spectroscopy and Quantum Optics

About this book

Principles of Laser Spectroscopy and Quantum Optics is an essential textbook for graduate students studying the interaction of optical fields with atoms. It also serves as an ideal reference text for researchers working in the fields of laser spectroscopy and quantum optics.


The book provides a rigorous introduction to the prototypical problems of radiation fields interacting with two- and three-level atomic systems. It examines the interaction of radiation with both atomic vapors and condensed matter systems, the density matrix and the Bloch vector, and applications involving linear absorption and saturation spectroscopy. Other topics include hole burning, dark states, slow light, and coherent transient spectroscopy, as well as atom optics and atom interferometry. In the second half of the text, the authors consider applications in which the radiation field is quantized. Topics include spontaneous decay, optical pumping, sub-Doppler laser cooling, the Heisenberg equations of motion for atomic and field operators, and light scattering by atoms in both weak and strong external fields. The concluding chapter offers methods for creating entangled and spin-squeezed states of matter.


Instructors can create a one-semester course based on this book by combining the introductory chapters with a selection of the more advanced material. A solutions manual is available to teachers.


  • Rigorous introduction to the interaction of optical fields with atoms

  • Applications include linear and nonlinear spectroscopy, dark states, and slow light

  • Extensive chapter on atom optics and atom interferometry

  • Conclusion explores entangled and spin-squeezed states of matter

  • Solutions manual (available only to teachers)

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. 1 Preliminaries
  9. 2 Two-Level Quantum Systems
  10. 3 Density Matrix for a Single Atom
  11. 4 Applications of the Density Matrix Formalism
  12. 5 Density Matrix Equations: Atomic Center-of-Mass Motion, Elementary Atom Optics, and Laser Cooling
  13. 6 Maxwell-Bloch Equations
  14. 7 Two-Level Atoms in Two or More Fields: Introduction to Saturation Spectroscopy
  15. 8 Three-Level Atoms: Applications to Nonlinear Spectroscopy—Open Quantum Systems
  16. 9 Three-Level Λ Atoms: Dark States, Adiabatic Following, and Slow Light
  17. 10 Coherent Transients
  18. 11 Atom Optics and Atom Interferometry
  19. 12 The Quantized, Free Radiation Field
  20. 13 Coherence Properties of the Electric Field
  21. 14 Photon Counting and Interferometry
  22. 15 Atom–Quantized Field Interactions
  23. 16 Spontaneous Decay
  24. 17 Optical Pumping and Optical Lattices
  25. 18 Sub-Doppler Laser Cooling
  26. 19 Operator Approach to Atom–Field Interactions: Source-Field Equation
  27. 20 Light Scattering
  28. 21 Entanglement and Spin Squeezing
  29. Index