Advanced experimental techniques make quantum optics one ofthe most active fields in probing the fundamental laws ofquantum theory. The contributions collected in this volume,by both theoreticians and experimentalists, give an overviewof the most recent developments in fundamental quantumoptics. Of particular interest is the physics of cooled andtrapped particles. Other topics include atomicinterferometry, quantum electrodynamics in a cavity, quantummeasurement and much more. The level of presentation makesthis book intelligible not only to the expert but also to awide readership from engineering and physics.
Optical elements for atoms: A beamsplitter and a mirror.- Atom interferometry.- Optical ramsey interferometry with magnesium atoms.- Momentum transfer by adiabatic passage in a light field.- Atomic waveguides and cavities from hollow optical fibers.- Towards higher densities of cold atoms: intense slow atom beams and dark light traps.- Two and three-dimensional optical crystals.- Multidimensional laser cooling: Quantum approaches.- Software atom of optical physics.- Quantum optics with cold atoms.- Correlations of the resonance fluorescence from a single trapped ion.- Non-classical states of motion in an ion trap.- Limits in preparation of coherent population trapping states.- Adiabatic atomic cooling in cavity QED.- Quantum electrodynamics in an optical cavity.- Fock state superpositions in cavity QED with dark atoms.- Mesoscopic quantum coherences in cavity QED.- Using the positive P-representation.- Generating number-phase squeezed states.- Suppression of photon fluctuations in
the light flow under non-linear amplification in a resonant medium layer.- Quantum statistics of four-wave mixing of nonclassical light with pump depletion.- Quantum non-demolition measurements in optics and quantum optical repeaters.- Perfect correlations of three-particle entangled states.- Irreversibility in quantum dynamical processes.- On lasing without inversion within the sodium D1 line.
