TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paul,Harry
AU  - Jex, Igor
TI  - Introduction to quantum optics: from light quanta to quantum teleportation
SN  - 9780521835633
U1  - 535.15 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Photons
KW  - Quantum optics
N1  - This textbook provides a physical understanding of what photons are and of their properties and applications. Special emphasis is made in the text to entangled photon pairs which exhibit quantum mechanical correlations over manifestly macroscopic distances. Such photon pairs make possible such exciting techniques as teleportation and quantum cryptography, as well as the physical realisation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen type experiments. In addition, nonclassical properties of light, such as photon antibunching and squeezing, as well as quantum phase measurement and optical tomography are discussed. The author describes relevant experiments and elucidates the physical ideas behind them. This book will be of interest to undergraduates and graduate students studying optics, and to any physicist with an interest in the mysteries of the photon and exciting modern work in quantum cryptography and teleportation.

    First edition in English, with significant new material on the Franson experiment and quantum teleportation
    Describes relevant experiments and elucidates the physical ideas behind them
    Extensive explanations are used in preference to technical formulae; Includes bibliographical references and index
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UR  - https://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/35633/index/9780521835633_index.pdf
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