Fundamental Optical Processes

Sintayehu Tesfa

F. De Martini, Gloria Regina Jacobovitz, Michele Marrocco +2 more

We report the recent results of several experiments involving the active microcavity and study of QED processes involving spontaneous and stimulated emission, anomalous phase transition, and zero threshold effects in laser action and optical parametric oscillation. The results of an investigation on the fundamental process of localization/delocalization of the photon are also reported.

Pieter Kok, Brendon W. Lovett

Quantum information processing offers fundamental improvements over classical information processing, such as computing power, secure communication, and high-precision measurements. However, the best way to create practical devices is not yet known. This textbook describes the techniques that are likely to be used in implementing optical quantum information processors. After developing the fundamental concepts in quantum optics and quantum information theory, the book shows how optical systems can be used to build quantum computers according to the most recent ideas. It discusses implementations based on single photons and linear optics, optically controlled atoms and solid-state systems, atomic ensembles, and optical continuous variables. This book is ideal for graduate students beginning research in optical quantum information processing. It presents the most important techniques of the field using worked examples and over 120 exercises.

M. De

A. Thetford

Shanhui Fan, Mehmet Fatih Yanik

We show that light can be stopped and stored coherently with an all-optical adiabatic bandwidth compression process, without any coherent or resonant light-matter interactions. Such a process overcomes the fundamental bandwidth-delay constraint in optics.