This is a new and greatly expanded edition of what has become one of the best known introductions to the principles, techniques and applications of optical holography. Where necessary, existing sections have been updated to cover several new techniques and applications and two new chapters have been added. After presenting the theory of holographic imaging and the various types of holograms, the author covers practical aspects of holography, as well as the production of holograms for display, color holography, and computer generated holograms. He then discusses a variety of applications of...

This book provides a throrough introduction to the interaction of atoms and atomic ions with optical and magnetic fields. The author places particular emphasis on the wealth of important multilevel effects, where atomic vapors exhibit anisotropic behavior. As well as covering the classic two-level atom approach to light-atom interactions, Suter describes in detail a general multilevel formalism, which he uses to discuss optical pumping, two-dimensional spectroscopy and nonlinear optical dynamics. The final chapter deals with the mechanical effects of light, including the cooling and trapping...

Quantum mechanics sets fundamental limits on the amount of information one can extract from a system with a single set of measurements. Recent results of new theoretical analyses and optical experiments have given rise to a more complete knowledge of the quantum properties of light. This book gives the first detailed description of this fascinating branch of quantum optics. The author describes some key results and tools from quantum optics and then discusses the quantum mechanical description of simple optical instruments before giving a detailed treatment of quantum tomography. The book...

This work presents proceedings from the 47th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, held at St Andrews during June 1995. It includes coverage of microcavity lasers and QED, solid-state laser materials, fibre lasers and pulsed parametric oscillators.

The proceeding of the 50th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, this volume combines new physics and current device developments in low dimensional semiconductors. The aim of the text is to allow those who already have some familiarity with semiconductor physics and devices to broaden and expand their knowledge into expanding topics in low dimensional semiconductors. It provides a pedagogical coverage of selected areas of new and pertinent physics of low dimensional structures with a perspective of some of the latest optoelectronic devices under development. The coverage includes...

Ultrafast photonics has become an interdisciplinary topic of high international research interest because of the spectacular development of compact and efficient lasers producing optical pulses with durations in the femtosecond time domain. Present day long-haul telecommunications systems are almost entirely based on the transmission of short bursts or pulses of laser light along silicon optical fibres, with Erbium-doped fibre amplifiers inserted to regenerate the signals periodically. The phenomenal success of optical fibre communications has created a substantial opto-electronics industry...

The book will be found useful by anyone whose work involves one of the many applications of interferometric techniques.