This book covers the new field of squeezing in quantum fields, encompassing all types of systems in which quantum fluctuations are reduced below those in the normal vacuum state. It presents the currently known techniques of generating squeezed photon fields, together with treatments of matter field squeezing. Both theory and experiments are covered, together with applications to communications and measurement. International experts present the field from general introductory material to the most recent developments.

The basis of the book is the use of material contributed by international experts in the field, raning from general introductory material to the most recent developments Both theory and experiments are covered, together with applications to communications and measurement

Klappentext
The subject of this book is the new field of squeezing in quantum fields. This general area includes all types of systems in which quantum fluctuations are reduced below those in the normal vacuum state. The book covers the main currently known techniques of generating squeezed photon fields, together with some treatment of matter field squeezing. Both theory and experiments are covered, together with applications to communications and measurement. The chapters of the book are written by the foremost international experts in the field, and their coverage extends from general introductory material, to the most recent developments.

Inhalt
I Fundamentals.- 1 Squeezed States: Basic Principles.- 2 Nonlinear Dielectrics.- 3 Input-Output Theory.- II Generation of Quantum Squeezing.- 4 Squeezing with Nonlinear Optics.- 5 Squeezing from Lasers.- 6 Squeezing and Feedback.- III Applications of Quantum Squeezing.- 7 Communication and Measurement with Squeezed States.- 8 Novel Spectroscopy with Two-Level Atoms in Squeezed Fields.- 9 Spectroscopy with Three-Level Atoms in a Squeezed Field.- 10 Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Correlations, Entanglement and Quantum Cryptography.