Quantum Aspects of Light Propagation
Quantum Aspects of Light Propagation provides an overview of spatio-temporal descriptions of the electromagnetic field in linear and nonlinear dielectric media, appropriate to macroscopic and microscopic theories. Readers will find an introduction to cano
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ˆ ˆ Antonín Luks and Vlasta Perinová
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Anton´ın Lukˇs · Vlasta Peˇrinov´a
Quantum Aspects of Light Propagation
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Anton´ın Lukˇs Joint Laboratory of Optics Palack´y University and Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences 772 07, Olomouc Czech Republic [email protected]
Vlasta Peˇrinov´a Joint Laboratory of Optics Palack´y University and Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences 772 07, Olomouc Czech Republic [email protected]
Consulting Editor D.R. Vij Kurukshetra University E-5 University Campus Kurukshetra 136119 India
ISBN 978-0-387-85589-9 DOI 10.1007/b101766
e-ISBN 978-0-387-85590-5
Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009930842 c Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
Quantum descriptions of light propagation frequently exhibit a replacement of time by propagation distance. It seems to be natural since a propagation lasts some amount of time. The primary intention was to inform more fundamentally inclined, open-minded readers on this approach by this book. We have included also spatiotemporal descriptions of the electromagnetic field in linear and nonlinear optical media. We call some of these formalisms one dimensional (more exactly 1 + 1dimensional), even though they comprise the time variable along with the position coordinate. These descriptions, however, are 3 + 1-dimensional in principle. The rapid development of applications of photonic band-gap structures and experiments on lasing in a disordered medium has directed us to pay attention even to these topics, which has influenced the style of the book, which becomes a very review of these streams. This book has the following features. It reviews both macroscopic and microscopic theories of the electromagnetic field in dielectrics. It takes into account parametric down-conversion experiments. It covers results on nonlinear optical couplers. It includes optical imaging with nonclassical light. It expounds basics of quasimode theory. It respects success of the Green-function approach in describing optical field at dielectric devices, left-handed materials and the Casimir effect for some geometries. It refers to quantization in waveguides, pho
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