Quantum Optics of Confined Systems

ISBN-13: 9789401072410 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 394 str.

M. Ducloy; Daniel Bloch

Opis

In the last few years it was seen the emergence of various new quantum phenomena specifically related with electronic or optical confinement on a sub-wavelength-size. Fast developments simultaneously occurred in the field of Atomic Physics, notably through various regimes of Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics, and in Solid State Physics, with advances in Quantum Well technology and Nanooptoelectronics. Simultaneously, breakthroughs in Near-Field Optics provided new tools which should be widely applicable to these domains. However, the key concepts used to describe these new and partly related effects are often very different and specific of the Community involved in a given development. It has been the ambition of the Meeting held at "Centre de Physique des Houches" to give an opportunity to specialists of different Communities to deepen their understanding of advances more or less intimately related to their own field, while presenting the basic concepts of these different fields through pedagogical Introductions. The audience comprised advanced students, postdocs and senior scientists, with a balanced participation of Atomic Physicists and Solid State Physicists, and had a truly international character. The considerable efforts of the lecturers, in order to present exciting new results in a language accessible to the whole audience, were the essential ingredients to achieve successfully what was the main goal of this School."

Spis treści

Basics of Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics; J.-M. Raimond. Photon Statistics, Non-Classical Light and Quantum Interference; J.G. Rarity, P.R. Tapster. Nonlinear Optics in Micro-Meter Sized Droplets; R.K. Chang, et al. Photonic Band Structures; J.W. Haus. Solid State Physics: Basic and Optical Properties; A. Quattropani, et al. Semiconductor Quantum Wells; C. Delalande. Squeezing and Cavity QED in Semiconductors; Y. Yamamoto. Physics of Semiconductor Lasers; K.J. Ebeling. Near Field Optics and Scanning Near Field Optical Microscopy; U.C. Fischer, et al. Laser Resonance Photoelectron Spectromicroscopy with a Subwavelength Spatial Resolution; V.S. Letokhov. Reflection of Light from Vapor Boundaries; G. Nienhuis. Light Induced Atom Desorption: A Photo-atomic Effect; E. Mariotti, L. Moi. Atoms in Nanocavities; S.I. Kanorsky, A. Weis.