Prior to the development of the first lasers in the 1960s, optical coherence was not a subject with which many scientists had much acquaintance, even though early contributions to the field were made by several distinguished physicists, including Max you Lane, Erwin Schrodinger and Frits Zernike. However, the situation changed once it was realized that the remarkable properties of laser light depended on its coherence. An earlier development that also triggered interest in optical coherence was a series of important experiments by Hanbury Brown and Twiss in teh 1950s,showing that, correlations between the fluctuations of mutually coherent beams of thermal light could be measured by photoelectric correlation and two-photon coincidence counting experiments. The interpretation of these experiments was, however, surrounded by controversy, which emphasized the need for understanding the coherence properties of light and their effect on the interaction between light and matter.
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Preface
:J]'c} 1 Elements of probability theory
TA-2{=8 1.1 Definitions
#Az#_0= 1.2 Properties of probabilities
*k62Qz3 1.2.1 Joint probabilities
dX cbS< 1.2.2 Conditional probabilities
B[GC@]HE 1.2.3 Bayes'theorem on inverse probabilities
Q_0+N3 1.3 Random variables and probability distributions
fq6Obh=A# 1.3.1 Transformations ofvariates
eTvWkpK+ 1.3.2 Expectations and moments
Lz.khE< 1.3.3 Chebyshev inequality
W_`]7RO8 1.4 Generating functions
hbH~Ya=+S 1.4.1 Moment generating function
e"%TU 1.4.2 Characteristic function
&/]en|f" 1.4.3 Cumulants
^EX"fRwNi 1.5 Some examples of probability distributions
KD &nLm! 1.5.1 Bernoulli or binomial distributiou
J 7R(X 1.5.2 Poisson distribution
k8+J7(_c 1.5.3 Bose-Einstein distribution
LBCH7@V1yR 1.5.4 The weak law of large numbers
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5lG\Z? 2 Random processes
0]|`*f&p; 3 Some useful mathematical techniques
YQG<Q 4 Second-order Coherence theory of scalar wavefields
:@[\(: 5 Radiation form sources of any state of coherence
MF4( 7 Some applications of second-order coherence theory
LUMbRrD- 8 Higher-order correlations in optical fields
?[Lk]A&"L2 9 Semiclassical theory of photoelectric detection of light
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&z?B ra 10 Quantization of the free electromagnetic field
a.Z@Z!* 11 Coherent states of the electromagnetic field
(w hl1 12 Quantum correlations and photon statistics
Snf_{A< 13 Radiation from thermal equilibrium sources
8~C_ng-wn 14 Quantum theory of photoelectric detection of light
9E2iZt] 15 Interaction between light and a two-level atom
1 P!)4W 16 Collective atomic interactions
z3+@[I$ 17 Some general techniques for treating interacting systems
>9&31wA_ 18 The single-mode laser
DO*U7V02 19 The two-mode ring laser
n^4R]9U 20 Squeezed states of light
lI=<lmM0|/ 22 Some quantum effects in nonlinear optics
Qu61$! References
LgNIb Author index
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