TY - BOOK AU - Fox, Mark TI - Quantum optics : : an introduction SN - 9780198827641 U1 - 535.15 PY - 2006/// CY - Oxford ; New York : PB - Oxford University Press, KW - Quantum optics N1 - I. Introduction and background; Classical optics; Quantum mechanics; Radiative transitions in atoms ; II. Photons.; Photon statistics; Photon antibunching; Coherent states and squeezed light; Photon number states; III. Atom-photon interactions.; Resonant light-atom interactions; Atoms in cavities; Cold atoms; IV. Quantum information processing; Quantum cryptography; Quantum computing; Entangled states and quantum teleportation N2 - Quantum optics: an introduction is a modern textbook written primarily for advanced undergraduate and masters level students in physics. In addition to standard topics, the text includes a broad range of topics in applied quantum optics such as laser cooling, Bose-Einstein condensation and quantum information processing. ER -