Partial Contents: Manipulation and Spectroscopy of Atoms; Nonlinear and Excitonic Optics; Stable Lasers; Squeezed States; Dynamic Studies in Semiconductors; Spectroscopy, Instability and Multistability; Quantum light and Quantum photodetection.
More than 500 scientists took part in the Second International Conference on Quantum Electronics, which was held at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, Calif., under the sponsorship of the Office of Naval Research and the University of California. Within the three-day conference period (March 23–25, 1961), some sixty papers were presented on recent progress in masers of various types (especially those involving the higher-frequency microwave and optical regions), phonon interactions and relaxation processes in solids and gases, narrow-line optical spectra of solids and gases, optical pumping, and a number of new ideas and accomplishments having to do with the interaction of matter and electromagnetic waves. In addition to those from the United States who attended the meeting, there were delegates from England, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Switzerland, and the USSR.
Preface. Part I: Atomic and Molecular systems. Scenarios in Coherent Control P. Brumer, M. Shapiro. Quantum Control in Atomic Systems D. Charalambidis, et al. Laser-phase-sensitive Coherent Control of Photoion Product States in 2-Photon vs. 2-Photon Ionization of Atomic Barium, F. Wang, et al. Coherent Phase control of Photoionization and Photodissociation R.J. Gordon, et al. Coherent Control of Atomic Photoionization and Autoionization P. Lambropoulos, T. Nakajima. Lasing Without Inversion via Interference of Double-Dark Resonances in Atomic and Quantum Well Systems M.O. Scully, et al. Part II: Coherent Control in Semiconductors. Coherence Control of Free Carriers in Bulk Semiconductors H.M. van Driel, et al. Coherent Control of 2D Excitons Probed by Time-Resolved Secondary Emission X. Marie, et al. Many-Body Effects in the Ultrafast Population Transfer in p-Doped Semiconductor Quantum Wells R. Binder, M. Lindberg. Coherent Control of Heavy-Light Hole and Phonon Quantum Beats T. Kuhn, et al. Coherent Control Schemes in Semiconductor Double Wells X. Hu, W. Poetz. Terahertz-Control of Charge-Carrier Wavepackets in Semiconductor Quantum Wells S. Hughes, D.S. Citrin. Microcavity Exciton-Polariton H. Cao. Part III: Coherent Phenomena and Related Topics. Coherent Control of Quantum Localization M. Holthaus. Tunneling of Low-Energetic Electrons in the Presence of Intense Laser Fields: The Formation of Dynamical Barrier States M. Wagner. Hopping Mechanism of Coherent Photovoltaic Effect and Photoinduced Polar Anisotropy in Glass E.M. Baskin, M.V. Entin. Heterodyning Scheme Employing Quantum Interference J.B. Khurgin, et al. Generation of Widely Tunable THz-Wave Using Nonlinear Optics K. Kawase, H.Ito. List of Participants.
Partial Contents: STATISTICAL PHYSICS; Fractal singularities in a measure and how to measure singularities on a fractal; Quantum kinetic Heisenberg models: a unique dynamics; The kinetic boundary layer: a small scale system far from equilibrium; NUCLEAR AND HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; The K+ meson as a probe of neutron densities in deformed nuclei; Properties of the S matrix for absorbing potentials; Glauber theory of electron nucleus scattering; QUANTUM OPTICS; The group velocity of short optical pulses; Order and chaos in quantum optics; Beyond the coherent states: Gaussons of the electromagnetic field; Influence of phase diffusion on spontaneous oscillations in the laser with injected signal; Quantum chaos on a sphere; Quantum theory of balanced homodyne detection; A test for high order squeezing of a quantum electromagnetic field; Quantum coherence effects in a Compton regime free electron laser; Superfluorescence from randomly distributed atoms; and Quantum coherence, dissipation and measurement theory.