Rendiconti della Scuola internazionale di fisica "Enrico Fermi."

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North-Holland, 1969 - Physics

Contents

TER HAAR
1
Theory of photodetection The photon counter viewed as
46
The density operator for the photon counter
52
W H LOUISELL
56
Comparison of PCS and correlation functions G
77
Applications of the PCS to scattering problems
94
Signaltonoise ratio of photocounting experiments
117
The signaltonoise ratios of photocounting experiments
123
Transverse polarization waves
372
Excitons in random lattices and gases
388
A GOLD
397
Survey of experiments
404
J DUCUING Nonlinear optical processes
421
Noise in RebkaPound experiment
436
192
463
Y R SHEN Quantum theory of nonlinear optics
473

The spectral measurement and correlation measurement
131
Comparison among different detection schemes
140
TITULAER Factorization properties of coherent fields
147
E R PIKE
160
MANDEL Some experiments on interference of photons
176
A E GLASSGOLD The dynamical characteristic function
192
The approach of a radiation field to equilibrium
199
J P BARRAT Coherence narrowing of excited atomic energy
206
Conclusion
216
F BAROCCHI M MANCINI R PRATESI and G TORALDO DI
218
Resonance radiation in solids
224
Proposal of narrowband excitation of a quasiresonance line
231
H Z CUMMINS Laser light scattering spectroscopy
247
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297
Theory of longwavelength polar excitations
306
Raman scattering by optical phonons
313
P A FLEURY Magnon dispersion relations from light scat
321
Experimental results in
328
Conclusion
338
Dielectric response due to excitons
357
Longitudinal excitons
363
J A GIORDMAINE Parametric optics
493
MAIER W KAISER M STANKA and J A GIORDMAINE
520
S R HARTMANN Generation and relaxation of photon echoes
532
G MAYER Experimental features of firstorder stimulated
551
Classical physics again
558
F DE MARTINI and P L KELLEY Nonlinear optical propaga
574
Selfsteepening and spectral evolution of light pulses
580
SCULLY The quantum theory of a laser a problem
586
Discussion of equation of motion photon statistical distribu
613
Offdiagonal elements of the density matrix and spectral profile
621
H HAKEN and W WEIDLICH Quantum theory of the laser
630
The harmonic oscillator
680
Damped oscillator
692
FokkerPlanck equation for damped oscillator
710
Quantum theory of a laser
719
Adiabatic elimination of atomic variables
726
Appendix B Adiabatic elimination of variables
734
J P GORDON
742
The FokkerPlanck equation
749
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