Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Historical milestones
- 3 Basics of the classical description of light
- 4 Quantum mechanical understanding of light
- 5 Light detectors
- 6 Spontaneous emission
- 7 Interference
- 8 Photon statistics
- 9 Squeezed light
- 10 Measuring distribution functions
- 11 Optical Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen experiments
- 12 Quantum cryptography
- 13 Quantum teleportation
- 14 Summarizing what we know about the photon
- 15 Appendix. Mathematical description
- References
- Index
9 - Squeezed light
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Historical milestones
- 3 Basics of the classical description of light
- 4 Quantum mechanical understanding of light
- 5 Light detectors
- 6 Spontaneous emission
- 7 Interference
- 8 Photon statistics
- 9 Squeezed light
- 10 Measuring distribution functions
- 11 Optical Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen experiments
- 12 Quantum cryptography
- 13 Quantum teleportation
- 14 Summarizing what we know about the photon
- 15 Appendix. Mathematical description
- References
- Index
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- Introduction to Quantum OpticsFrom Light Quanta to Quantum Teleportation, pp. 155 - 164Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004