Quantum Optics

by Raymond Chiao and John Carson Garrison

Book Overview

Quantum optics, i.e. the interaction of individual photons with matter, began with the discoveries of Planck and Einstein, but in recent years, it has expanded beyond pure physics to become an important driving force for technological innovation. This book serves the broader readership
growing out of this development by starting with an elementary description of the underlying physics and then building up a more advanced treatment. The reader is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198508867
• ISBN13: 9780198508861
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.8" x 9.5"