"Version: 20241201"--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: 20250701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. What is quantum optics? -- 1.2. Open quantum systems -- 1.3. The mystery of the polaroids -- 1.4. This book2. Classical electromagnetism and linear optics -- 2.1. Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves -- 2.2. Wave equation for fields in a medium -- 2.3. Slowly varying envelope approximation…
"Version: 20240901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical aspects -- 2.1. The Jaynes-Cummings model -- 2.2. Jaynes-Cummings dynamics -- 2.3. Driven and open Jaynes-Cummings physics -- 2.4. Beyond the rotating-wave approximation : the quantum Rabi model -- 2.5. Extended Jaynes-Cummings models -- 2.6. Extended Jaynes-Cummings models turned into si…
"Version: 20210205"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Topology and physics : a historical overview -- 1.1. Introduction : searching for holes in fields of light -- 1.2. Topology and physics2. Electromagnetism and optics -- 2.1. Electromagnetic fields -- 2.2. Electromagnetic potentials and gauge invariance -- 2.3. Linear and nonlinear optical materials -- 2.4. Polarization…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Theoretical aspects -- 1.1. The Jaynes-Cummings model -- 1.2. Jaynes-Cummings dynamics -- 1.3. Driven and open Jaynes-Cummings physics -- 1.4. Beyond the rotating wave approximation : the quantum Rabi model -- 1.5. Extended Jaynes-Cummings models -- 1.6. Extended Jaynes-Cummings models turned into single partic…
"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…