Quantum Optics VI

This proceedings volume presents the most recent developments in quantum optics. Of particular interest are the contributions on atomic optics and atom interferometry as well as new methods for quantum-noise reduction in optical systems.

Inhalt
I Quantum Optics Experiments.- An Axially Symmetric Imaging System for Ultra-Cold Neutral Atoms.- Matter-Wave Optics and Interferometry with Laser-Cooled Atoms.- Towards a Cold-Atom Matter-Wave Interferometer.- Uncertainty-Principle-Limited Position Measurement of Moving Atoms.- Atoms Optics with Standing Waves of Light.- II Atomic Optics Theory.- Quantum Effects in Atomic Diffraction and Reflection.- Theory of Interactions Between Laser-Cooled Atoms.- Many-Body Theory of Atom Optics.- Bragg Scattering of a Coherent Ultracold Atomic Beam in Nonlinear Atom Optics.- Atom Optics in Quantized Light Fields.- Quantum Nonlinear Dynamics in Atom Optics.- Non-Classical States of Motion and Quantum Collapse and Revival in an Ion Trap.- III Quantum Measurement and Quantum Noise.- Quantum Non-Demolition Measurements and Back-Action-Induced Squeezing in Atomic-Three-Level Systems.- Competing ?(2) Nonlinearities in a Cavity.- Measurement Effects on Quantum Optical Systems.- Quantum-Optical Phase and Its Measurement.- Nonlinear Quantum Optics with Few Atoms.- Dissipative Environments: Quantum Jumps or Phase-Space Localization?.- Ponderomotive Control of Quantum Noise.- Quantum Soliton Collisions: Logic and QND.- Nonlinear and Quantum Dynamics of an Optical Cavity Containing Cold Atoms.- Quantum Optics with Mirrors.- Decoherence: Is Dissipation All It Takes?.- IV New Theoretical Techniques.- Quantum Optical Correlations: A Green's Function Approach.- Wigner Distributions for Quantum States with Minimum Phase Uncertainty.- Spatial and Temporal Optical Field Reconstruction Using Phase-Space Tomography.- Driving Atoms with Light of Arbitrary Statistics.- Quantum Trajectories and Stochastic Schrödinger Equation for Nonlinear Optical Processes.- V Applications in Laser Physics.-Intensity Coherence in Multimode Lasers.- Electron-Photon Manipulation with Sub-Poissonian Semiconductor Junction Arrays.- Near Dipole-Dipole Effects in Nonlinear and Quantum Optics with Applications to Piezophotonic Switching.- A Superradiant Laser.- Laser-Induced Processes in Molecular Systems.- Coherent Pulse Propagation in Mode-Locked Laser Systems.- Long-Range Atom-Dielectric Interactions.- Index of Contributors.