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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
- photons correlations (as measured by, e.g., $g^{(2)}$) including frequency-resolved photon correlations.
- Single-Photon Sources (or SPS), in particular Antibunching.
- Resonance fluorescence, Parametric fluorescence, etc.
- Single-molecule spectroscopy.
People
(in no particular order)
- Leonard Mandel
- Roy Glauber
- Benjamin Mollow
- Serge Reynaud
- Crispin Gardiner
- Daniel Walls
- David Stoler
- Zhe-Yu Ou
- Malvin Carl Teich & Bahaa E. A. Saleh
- Howard Carmichael
- Gerard Milburn
- Klaus Mølmer
- Vahid Sandoghdar with molecules (and biology).
- Juha Javanainen from atomic BEC.
- David Pegg on the quantum phase.
Citations
Historically, the field of quantum op tics has been strongly rooted in the growing awareness start ing around 1960 of the consequences in photodetection ex periments of the difference between means of operator products and products of operator means