Introduction to Quantum Optics: From Light Quanta to Quantum Teleportation

By Harry Paul

Book Overview

The purpose of this book is to provide a physical understanding of photons and their properties and applications. Special emphasis is given in the text to photon pairs produced in spontaneous parametric, down-conversion, which exhibit intrinsically quantum mechanical correlations, known as entanglement, and which extend over manifestly macroscopic distances. Such photon pairs are well suited to the physical realization of Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky type experiments, and also make possible such exciting techniques as quantum cryptography and teleportation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521835631
• ISBN13: 9780521835633
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.9"