Quantum-limit spectroscopy. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Zbigniew Ficek, Ryszard Tanaš.
• Authors: Ficek, Zbigniew; Tanaś, Ryszard
• Contents: Intro; Preface; Contents; Ryszard Tanaś; 1 Quantum Fluctuations and Their Measurements; 1.1 Radiation Fields; 1.2 The Field with Multiatom Sources; 1.3 Photodetection Theory; 1.4 Definition of the Power Spectrum; 1.4.1 Power Spectrum of a Stationary Field; 1.4.2 Power Spectrum of a Nonstationary Field; 1.5 Spectrum of the Intensity Fluctuations; 1.5.1 Contribution of the Background Field; 1.6 Radiation Intensity; References; 2 Spectra of Radiating Systems; 2.1 Emission Power Spectrum; 2.1.1 Coherent (Elastic) Part of the Spectrum; 2.1.2 Incoherent (Noise) Part of the Spectrum 2.2 Absorption Spectrum of a Probe Field2.3 Phase-Dependent Spectra and Their Measurements; 2.4 Homodyne Detection of Quantum Fluctuations; 2.5 Balanced Homodyne Detection of Quantum Fluctuations; References; 3 Spectroscopy with Single Atoms in Atomic Beams; 3.1 Spectroscopy with a Monochromatic Excitation; 3.1.1 Optical Bloch Equations; 3.1.2 Excitation Spectrum; 3.1.3 Stationary Fluorescence Spectrum; 3.2 Spectral Linewidth Narrowing in a Tailored Reservoir; 3.2.1 Dressed States of a Driven Atom; 3.2.2 Transition Rates; 3.2.3 Populations and Coherences 3.2.4 Incoherent Fluorescence Spectrum3.3 Atomic Population Inversion in a Tailored Vacuum; 3.3.1 Enhancement and Suppression of the Atomic Excitation; 3.3.2 Enhancement and Suppression of the Atomic Excitation: Experiment; 3.4 Spectral Linewidth Narrowing in Free Space; 3.5 Spectral Linewidth Narrowing in Free Space via Coherent Pumping; 3.5.1 Fluorescence Spectrum; 3.5.2 Dressed-Atom Model Explanation of the Linewidth Narrowing; 3.6 Experimental Studies of the Spectral Line Narrowing; References; 4 Collective Multiatom Spectroscopy; 4.1 Collective Atomic States 4.1.1 Master Equation for the Density Operator4.1.2 Equations of Motion for the Density Matrix Elements; 4.2 Stationary Intensity; 4.2.1 General Features of the Radiation Intensity; 4.2.2 Radiation Intensity for Symmetric Driving; 4.2.3 Radiation Intensity for Nonsymmetric Driving; 4.3 Selective Excitation of the Collective States; 4.3.1 Experimental Preparation of Two Atoms in a Collective State; 4.4 Experimental Evidence of Suppressed Spontaneous Emission from a Large Cloud of Atoms; 4.5 Atom Physics Meets Solid State Physics: Spectroscopy with Artificial Atoms 4.5.1 Measurement of Subradiance of Two Distant Artificial Atoms4.5.2 Measurement of Suppressed Linewidths of Multiple Artificial Atoms; References; 5 Time-Dependent Fluorescence Spectroscopy; 5.1 Modulation Spectroscopy; 5.2 Bichromatic Excitation; 5.2.1 Floquet Method Approach; 5.2.2 Continued Fraction Method; 5.2.3 Matrix Inversion Method; 5.2.4 Fluorescence Spectrum; 5.2.5 Dressed-Atom Model Analysis of the Dynamical Suppression of the Spectral Component; 5.3 Excitation with an Amplitude-Modulated Field; 5.4 Excitation with Two Fields of Equal Frequencies
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 376 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 535.8/4; Physics; Spectrum analysis; Quantum theory; Spectroscopy; Quantum theory; Spectrum analysis; Science -- Spectroscopy & Spectrum Analysis; Spectrum analysis, spectrochemistry, mass spectrometry; Science -- Optics; Optical physics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781493937400; 1493937405
• Related ISBNs: 9781493937387; 1493937383
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 28, 2016).
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