Quantum photonics : pioneering advances and emerging applications /: pioneering advances and emerging applications. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert W. Boyd, Svetlana G. Lukishova, Victor N. Zadkov, editors.
• Editors: Boyd, Robert W, 1948-; Lukishova, Svetlana G; Zadkov, V. N (Viktor Nikolaevich)
• Contents: PREFACE PART I. Single-photon and nonlinear optical experiments in a pre-laser era Chapter 1. S.G. Lukishova, ' Sergej Vavilov's nonlinear and quantum optical experiments in prelaser time, Vavilov-Čerenkov radiation, and his contribution to the luminescence science'. Translation into English part of Vavilov's paper of 1926 with Levshin – first nonlinear optical experiment on saturation of absorption (Zeitschrift für Physik, 31-35, 920-936 (1926)). Translation into English Vavilov's paper of 1934 on methods of measurements of sensitivity of human eye to single photons (E.M. Brumberg and S.I. Vavilov, Dokl. Akad. Nauk USSR (Soviet Physics: Doklady) 3, 1 (1934)). Chapter 2. Notes from Phys. Today about Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor. Reprinted paper of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, "Interference Fringes with Feeble Light", Proc. Cam. Phil. Soc. 15, 114 (1909). Chapter 3. P.N. Lebedev – first experiment on measuring light pressure, A. Masalov, Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia. Reprint P. N. Lebedev, 'Investigations on the pressure forces of light, ' Ann. Phys. 6, 433–458 (1901). Chapter 4. E. F. Nichols and G. F. Hull – about experiments on measuring light pressure. Reprint E. F. Nichols and G. F. Hull, 'The pressure due to radiation. Phys. Rev. 17, 26–50 (1903). Chapter 5. Notes from APS News about Gilbert Newton Lewis. Reprinted paper of Gilbert Newton Lewis on nonlinear optical experiment (saturation of absorption) of 1941 (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 63, 3005 (1941)). Chapter 6. Short overview of B.O'Brian work on (JOSA 36, is. 12, 709 (1946)) on a phosphor telescope device using nonlinear optics (saturation of fluorescence). Chapter 7. Reprinted paper of S. Hecht, S. Shlaer and M.H. Pirenne, J. Gen. Physiol. 25, 819 (1942) – experiments on sensitivity of human eye to single photons. Chapter 8. Translation into English of two Janossy papers and a short commentary of Sandor Varro about Janossy. Chapter 9. Overview of paper of 1956 (Nature, January 7, pp. 27-29) of Hanbury Brown and Twiss on correlation between photons (bunching). PART II. Modern quantum, nano- and nonlinear photonics Chapter 10. Alain Aspect and Philippe Grangier (Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d'Optique, CNRS), 'The first single-photon sources'. Chapter 11. Mohammad Mirhosseini, Jeff Lundeen, and Robert Boyd (University of Rochester/University of Ottawa), 'Direct measurement of the photon's spatial wave function'. Chapter 12. Dmitry Strekalov and Gerd Leuchs (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory), 'Nonlinear interactions and nonclassical light'. Chapter 13. Svetlana Lukishova and Luke Bissell (University of Rochester, Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, OH), 'Nanophotonics advances for room-temperature single-photon sources'. Chapter 14. Michelle Victora, Fumihiro Kaneda, Fedor Bergmann, Jia Jun Wong, Austin Graf, and Paul Kwiat (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), 'Time-multiplexed methods for optical quantum information processing'. Chapter 15. Leonid A. Krivitsky and Vadim Volkov (Data Storage Institute, A*STAR, Singapore), 'The role of photon statistics in visual perception'. Chapter 16. Xu Fang, Kevin. F. MacDonald and Nikolay I. Zheludev, 'Controlling light with light via interference on photonic metamaterials' (University of Southampton). Chapter 17. N. Van Hulst (ICFO, Barcelona) 'Nano-antennas for light'. Chapter 18. Anatoly Zayats and Alexey Krasavin (King's College), 'Nonlinear nanoplasmonics'. Chapter 19. Vladimir Makarov (Lomonosov Moscow State University), 'Nonlinear optics with elliptically polarized singular beams and short pulses in media with spatial dispersion'. Chapter 20. A.M. Zheltikov (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Texas A & M University) 'Ultrafast nonlinear optics in the mid-infrared'.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxxi, 627 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 535/.15; Quantum optics; Photonics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319984025; 3319984020
• Related ISBNs: 9783319984001
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 26, 2019).
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