Overview: Extensively revised and updated new edition.Provides new problems and new chapters on weak measurements and on complementarity.Teaches clearly and succinctly how to solve problems in quantum optics.This revised new edition gives a unique and broad coverage of basic laser-related phenomena that allow graduate students, scientists and engineers to carry out research in quantum optics and laser physics. It covers quantization of the electromagnetic field, quantum theory of coherence, atom-field interaction models, resonance fluorescence, quantum theory of damping, laser theory using bot
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