"Version: 20190601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Forms of quantum mechanics -- 1.1. The Schr?odinger and Heisenberg pictures -- 1.2. Interaction picture -- 1.3. Density-matrix formulation of quantum mechanics -- 1.4. Further contents of Heisenberg's commutation relations2. Lorentz group and its representations -- 2.1. Lie algebra of the Lorentz group -- 2.2…
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. What is quantum optics -- 1.2. Open quantum systems -- 1.3. This book2. Classical electromagnetism and linear optics -- 2.1. Maxwell equations and electromagnetic waves -- 2.2. Wave equation for fields in a medium -- 2.3. Slowly varying envelope approximation -- 2.4. Lorentz oscillator model of the…
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Mathematical preliminaries -- 2.1. Fourier transform basics -- 2.2. Review of random processes theory -- 2.3. Simulating a random process with known spectral density -- 2.4. Complex signal representation -- 2.5. Spiral phase quadrature transform3. The angular spectrum method -- 3.1. Wave equation -- …
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction and overview -- 1.1. Historical background -- 1.2. Structure of the book2. Characterization of optical fields -- 2.1. Electromagnetic field modes in vacuum -- 2.2. Quantization of electromagnetic field modes -- 2.3. Quantized electromagnetic fields -- 2.4. Quantum distribution functions3. Atom-field intera…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) -- 1.1. Basics and properties -- 1.2. Discrete dedicated SPADs -- 1.3. SPADs integrated into CMOS and BiCMOS -- 1.4. A model for photon detection probability2. Photon-counting modules -- 2.1. Quenching -- 2.2. PCMs using discrete circuits -- 2.3. PCMs using integrated circuits3. Adv…
"Version: 20240101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Discovery of quantum optics -- 2.1. Optics timeline : from corpuscles and waves to photons -- 2.2. Classical, semi-classical or quantum? -- 2.3. From radio frequency electromagnetic fields controlling quantum systems to quantum optics and back3. What is quantum in quantum optics? -- 3.1. Einstein's i…
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. How does light meet with matter? -- 1.2. Collectivity that matters -- 1.3. At the boundary from quantum to classical worlds2. Light-induced dipole-dipole interactions -- 2.1. Reservoir interaction volume -- 2.2. Resonant dipole-dipole interactions in free space -- 2.3. Two-dimensional dipole-dipole…
"Version: 202201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Bra ket algebra of Dirac -- 1.1. The bra and ket notation of Dirac -- 1.2. Hermitian conjugation -- 1.3. Definition of inner product (also called overlap) -- 1.4. Definition of outer product -- 1.5. Eigenvalue equation -- 1.6. Linear vector space -- 1.7. Linear independence -- 1.8. Linear dependence -- 1.9. Span (expansi…
"Version: 20220901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Motivation -- 1.2. Photons, waves and fields -- 1.3. A necessary notepart I. Basic photon states. 2. Field quantisation -- 2.1. Quantum mechanical background -- 2.2. Harmonic oscillator -- 2.3. Electromagnetic field quantisation -- 2.4. Canonical quantisation -- 2.5. Photon wavefunction -- 2.6. Qua…
"Version: 20241001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Fundamentals of printing -- 1.1. What is printing? -- 1.2. What is a print? -- 1.3. Different printing technologies -- 1.4. What is the future of print?2. Printing on different substrates -- 2.1. Printing on paper -- 2.2. Printing on ceramics and metal, from tableware to tiles -- 2.3. Printing on plastic -- 2.4. Printi…