Mesoscopic quantum optics

This new work presents an eclectic treatment of quantum optics, quantum measurements, and mesoscopic physics. Beginning with the fundamentals of quantum optics, the book then provides scientists and engineers with the latest experimental work in the area of optical measurements. Content: Probability Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics -- Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle -- Commutator Bracket and the Minimum Uncertainty State -- Quantum Interference and Wave-Particle Duality -- Time Evolution of a Minimum Uncertainty State -- Coherent State and Squeezed State -- von Neumann's Projection Postulate -- Measurement Error and Back Action Noise -- Pauli's First-Kind and Second-Kind Measurements -- Density Operator and Liouville-von Neumann Equation -- General Description of Indirect Quantum Measurements -- Quantum Nondemolition Measurement -- Simultaneous Measurement of Two Conjugate Observables -- Canonical Quantization -- Minimum Action Principle and Lagrangian Formalism -- Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field -- Second Quantization of the Schrodinger Field -- Quantum States of the Electromagnetic Fields -- Photon Number Eigenstates -- Properties of Photon Number Eigenstates -- Generation of Photon Number Eigenstates -- Coherent States -- Properties of Coherent States -- Generation of Coherent States -- Squeezed States -- Properties of Quadrature Amplitude Squeezed States -- Generation of Quadrature Amplitude Squeezed States -- Properties of Number-Phase Squeezed States -- Generation of Number-Phase Squeezed States -- Correlated Twin Photons and Quantum Entanglement -- Generation of Arbitrary Quantum States by Projective Measurements -- Nonlocal Quantum Entanglement -- Probability Distribution Functions for a Density Operator -- Coherence of the Electromagnetic Fields -- Photodetection.