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If a scientific discipline should be reduced to one concept only, quantum optics could be defined as the science of photons correlations.
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If a scientific discipline should be reduced to one concept only, quantum optics could be defined as the science of [[photons correlations]].
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The first experimental evidence of non-classical light is from Burnham and Weinberg.{{cite|burnham70a}}
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== Key Concepts and Problems ==
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* [[photons correlations]] (as measured by, e.g., {{g2}}) including [[frequency-resolved photon correlations]].
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* [[Single-Photon Sources]] (or SPS), in particular [[Antibunching]].
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* [[Resonance fluorescence]], [[Parametric fluorescence]], etc.
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* [[Single-molecule spectroscopy]].
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== People ==
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* [[Leonard Mandel]]
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* [[Roy Glauber]]
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* [[Benjamin Mollow]]
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* [[Serge Reynaud]]
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* [[Crispin Gardiner]]
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* [[Daniel Walls]]
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* [[David Stoler]]
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* [[Zhe-Yu Ou]]
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* [[Malvin Carl Teich]] & [[Bahaa E. A. Saleh]]
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* [[Howard Carmichael]]
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* [[Klaus Mølmer]]
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* [[Vahid Sandoghdar]] with molecules (and bio).
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== References ==
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Latest revision as of 13:42, 12 December 2024

Contents

Quantum Optics

If a scientific discipline should be reduced to one concept only, quantum optics could be defined as the science of photons correlations.

The first experimental evidence of non-classical light is from Burnham and Weinberg.[1]

Key Concepts and Problems

People

References

  1. Observation of Simultaneity in Parametric Production of Optical Photon Pairs. D. C. Burnham and D. L. Weinberg in Phys. Rev. Lett. 25:84 (1970).