Electromagnetic Noise and Quantum Optical Measurements Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000 [Mīkstie vāki]

1. Maxwells Equations, Power, and Energy.-
2. Waveguides and
Resonators.-
3. Diffraction, Dielectric Waveguides, Optical Fibers, and the
Kerr Effect.-
4. Shot Noise and Thermal Noise.-
5. Linear Noisy Multiports.-
6. Quantum Theory of Waveguides and Resonators.-
7. Classical and Quantum
Analysis of Phase-Insensitive Systems.-
8. Detection.-
9. Photon Probability
Distributions and Bit-Error Rate of a Channel with Optical Preamplification.-
10. Solitons and Long-Distance Fiber Communications.-
11. Phase-Sensitive
Amplification and Squeezing.-
12. Squeezing in Fibers.-
13. Quantum Theory of
Solitons and Squeezing.-
14. Quantum Nondemolition Measurements and the
Collapse of the Wave Function.- Epilogue.- Appendices.- A.1 Phase Velocity
and Group Velocity of a Gaussian Beam.- A.2 The Hermite Gaussians and Their
Defining Equation.- A.2.1 The Defining Equation of Hermite Gaussians.- A.2.2
Orthogonality Property of Hermite Gaussian Modes.- A.2.3 The Generating
Function and Convolutions of Hermite Gaussians.- A.3 Recursion Relations of
Bessel Functions.- A.4 Brief Review of Statistical Function Theory.- A.5 The
Different Normalizations of Field Amplitudes and of Annihilation Operators.-
A.5.1 Normalization of Classical Field Amplitudes.- A.5.2 Normalization of
Quantum Operators.- A.6 Two Alternative Expressions for the Nyquist Source.-
A.7 Wave Functions and Operators in the n Representation.- A.8 Heisenbergs
Uncertainty Principle.- A.9 The Quantized Open-Resonator Equations.- A.10
Density Matrix and Characteristic Functions.- A.10.1 Example
1. Density
Matrix of BoseEinstein State.- A.10.2 Example
2. Density Matrix of Coherent
State.- A.11 Photon States and Beam Splitters.- A.12 The BakerHausdorff
Theorem.- A.12.1 Theorem 1.- A.12.2 Theorem 2.- A.12.3 MatrixForm of Theorem
1.- A.12.4 Matrix Form of Theorem 2.- A.13 The Wigner Function of Position
and Momentum.- A.14 The Spectrum of Non-Return-to-Zero Messages.- A.15
Various Transforms of Hyperbolic Secants.- A.16 The Noise Sources Derived
from a Lossless Multiport with Suppressed Terminals.- A.17 The Noise Sources
of an Active System Derived from Suppression of Ports.- A.19 The Heisenberg
Equation in the Presence of Dispersion.- References.

Author died May 2003