Quantum Optics and Solid State Spectroscopy

Ole Keller

Hakioğlu, Tahsin Tuğrul, A.S. Shumovsky

Pragati Kumar

Tugrul Hakioglu, A. S. Shumovskiǐ

Preface. Biography of Prof. A.O. Barut. 1. Aspects of Local-Field Electrodynamics in Condensed Matter O. Keller. 2. Persistent Current and Persistent Charge in Nanostructures I.O. Kulik. 3. Quantum Optics and Solid State Spectroscopy A.S. Shumovsky. 4. Laser-Experiments with Single Atoms in Cavities and Traps H. Walther. 5. Dressed States in Atoms and in Excitons G. Compagno, et al. 6. Electron Coherence in Quantum Well Intersubband Transitions A. Imamogammalu, et al. 7. Interaction of Two-Level Atomic System with a Single-Mode Radiation Field T. Hakiogammalu. 8. Quantum Estimation Theory and Optical Detection G.M. l'Ariano. 9. Measuring Quantum States G.M. l'Ariano. 10. Optical Tomography and Macroscopic Coherence P. Tombesi. 11. Harmonic Oscillator States in Finite Dimensional Hilbert Space A. Miranowicz, et al. 12. Optical Spectroscopy of Microcavities A. Serpenguzel, et al.

Ross Brown, Brahim Lounis, Michel Orrit

The optical study of single molecules opens new paths in molecular spectroscopy, solid state physics and quantum optics. And recent experiments at room temperature hold great promise for chemistry and biology as well

Karl K. Rebane

Spectroscopies of matrix isolated species and impurity activated solids are close relatives. Both are among the well developing chapters of solid state spectroscopy and optics. In this paper I am trying to give very brief overview what has been achieved in science and applications of impurity activated solids based on zero-phonon lines (ZPLs) in optical data storage and processing. I would like to show that the latter comprises via persistent spectral hole burning time-and-space domain holography in a certain meaning also the "stopping of light". ZPLs are beginning to play a role in the approaches to optical quantum computing.