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Physics Bulletin

Radiation and Noise in Quantum Electronics

C.C. Goodyear

Published Mar 1, 1965• 424 citations
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William H. Louisell McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Ltd. 1964. Pp. xii + 303. Price 116s. This is a textbook which aims to introduce to the graduate physicist or electrical engineer those aspects of quantum field theory and quantum statistics which are necessary for a basic understanding of such processes as the absorption and spontaneous emission of radiation, quantum fluctuations and quantum noise. With the advent of devices such as the maser, this text fills a definite need.

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10.1088/0031-9112/16/3/011

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