Quantum Optics IV -

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Sommaire:
I Squeezed States of Light.- Penetrating the Quantum Limit: The Experimentalists' View (With 10 Figures).- Inhibition of Atomic Phase Decays by Squeezed Light: A Direct Effect of Squeezing.- Broadband Squeezing (With 1 Figure).- Theory of Squeezed Light Generation (With 10 Figures).- Experimental Studies of Squeezed-State Generation by Four-Wave Mixing in an Optical Cavity (With 6 Figures).- Intracavity Frequency Doubling for the Generation of Squeezed States of Light (With 6 Figures).- Quantum Noise in Homodyne Detection (With 6 Figures).- Oversqueezing Via Fourth-Order Interaction.- Photodetection and Induced Squeezing.- Generation of Squeezed States: Rydberg Atoms in a High Q Cavity (With 5 Figures).- II Optical Bistability and Chaos.- Single- and Multimode Instabilities in Lasers With 8 Figures).- Ordered and Chaotic Response of a Modulated or Driven NMR Laser (With 9 Figures).- Bistable Operation of an Infrared Dye Laser (With 2 Figures).- Intrinsic Optical Bistability (With 3 Figures).- Chaos in Simple Quantum Systems.- III Fundamental Problems in Quantum Mechanics.- Are There Quantum Jumps? (With 3 Figures).- Modified Optical Bloch Equations for Solids.- Ground State Photons Dressing Atoms and Molecules.- Overdamping and Quasi Quantum Nondemolition Measurements.- First Order Coherence of Vacuum Fluctuations: Optical Pumping Experiments in Presence of Electromagnetic Boundaries (With 5 Figures).- Rydberg States in Laser Fields: Wave Packets and Near-Threshold Phenomena (With 6 Figures).- Squeezing in the Degenerate Parametric Oscillator Using the Positive P-Representation (With 4 Figures).- Quantum Brownian Motion: Recent Developments (With 3 Figures).- Quantum and Many-Body Effects in a Compton Regime Free-Electron Laser (With 4 Figures).- Time-SymmetricElectrodynamics and Quantum Measurement (With 2 Figures).- IV Optical Tests of General Relativity and Other Contributions.- Quantum-Noise Quenching in Correlated Spontaneous Emission Lasers, and Their Application to High-Precision Measurements.- Ring Interferometric Tests of Nonclassical Gravitational Effects.- Fluorescence Enhancement of Rhodamine 6G Molecules in TiO2 Semiconductor Colloid.- Stabilizing Lasers for Applications in Quantum Optics (With 7 Figures).- Index of Contributors.