Coherence and Quantum Optics VI: Proceedings of the Sixth Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics held at the University of Rochester, June 26–28, 1989

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Emission Frequency of a Homogeneously Broadened Laser Operating Below Threshold....Pages 1-5
Dynamics of the NH 3 FIR Laser and the Lorenz Model....Pages 7-12
Quantum Theory of Interaction of a Resonant Field with a Nonlinear Medium Modelled as an Anharmonic Oscillator....Pages 13-14
Quantum Effects in Light Propagation through a Nonlinear Medium....Pages 15-16
Cooperative Modulation Instability in Dispersive Nonlinear Media....Pages 17-21
Large Scale Transverse Interactions in Nonlinear Optical System With 2D-Feedback; Generation, Hysteresis and Interaction Op Wave Structures....Pages 23-27
Single Atom Cavity-Enhanced Absorption: Steady-State Field in the Strong-Coupling Limit....Pages 29-31
Quantum Theory of Multiwave Mixing in a Squeezed Vacuum....Pages 33-37
Measuring the Wigner Angle with a Parametric Amplifier....Pages 39-42
Delayed Bifurcations in a Co 2 Laser with a Slowly Swept Pump....Pages 43-47
Experimental Characterization of Shil’nikov Chaos by Statistics of Return Times....Pages 49-53
Determination of a Small Photon Number by Statistical Amplifying Transients....Pages 55-59
Progress in Modelling Coherently Pumped Far-Infrared Laser Dynamics....Pages 61-65
Extraordinary Behavior of Atoms Near a Phase Conjugator....Pages 67-69
Squeezed Light Generation with an Incoherent Pump....Pages 71-75
Three Wave Mixing for Multimode Beams....Pages 77-82
Dimensionality Studies of Chaotic Attractors in Laser with Injected Signal....Pages 83-87
Applications of the Optical Phase Operator....Pages 89-92
Classically Chaotic Near-Classical Microwave Ionization....Pages 93-97
Angular Correlations of Bosons and Fermions....Pages 99-103
The Physics of Stored Laser Cooled Ion Clusters: Phase Transitions in a System with Only a Few Degrees of Freedom....Pages 105-107
Theory of the Two-Photon Laser: Cross-Correlation and Laser Thresholds....Pages 109-113
Nonclassical Photon Correlations in Cavity QED....Pages 115-118
Silicon Avalanche Photodetectors for Quantum Optics Experiments: Sub-Geiger Performance....Pages 119-121
Comparison of Two Theories of Scattering from Quasi-Homogeneous Media....Pages 123-127
Photon-Number Distributions for Number-State Homodyne Photomixing at a Lossless Beam Splitter....Pages 129-130
Models and Approximations for Instabilities in Standing-Wave Lasers....Pages 131-135
Near Threshold Behavior of Multimode CW Dye Lasers with an Amplitude Modulated Pump....Pages 137-141
Radiation Theory for Two-Photon Processes....Pages 143-147
Behavior of a Ring Laser with Injected Signal Near Threshold....Pages 149-153
Optical Manifestations of Berry’s Topological Phase: Classical and Quantum Aspects....Pages 155-160
Theory and Photon Statistics of a Free Electron Laser....Pages 161-165
Investigation of π Phase Jumps in a Ring Laser....Pages 167-171
Phase Fluctuation and Damping in Two-Level Optical Resonance....Pages 173-177
Relaxation Problems and Lifetimes in Nonlinear Optical Systems....Pages 179-183
Optical Systems Driven by Inputs with Reduced Intensity Fluctuations: a Possible Master Equation Approach....Pages 185-189
QED of a Two-Level Atom and Photodetection....Pages 191-195
Competition Between Counter-Propagating Waves in Laser Dynamics....Pages 197-201
Nonlinear Dynamics of a Laser Containing a Modulated Saturable Absorber....Pages 203-207
Transition from Classical, “Maxwell-Boltzmann” to Quantum, “Bose-Einstein” Partition Statistics by Stochastic Splitting of Degenerate Light....Pages 209-213
Strong Photon Localization in Microcavity-Confined Optical Emission....Pages 215-219
Optical Experiments Illustrating the Significance of the Bell Inequalities....Pages 221-225
High Intensity Effects in Raman Scattering....Pages 227-236
Fluctuation Interferometer as High Angular-Resolution Sensor of Laser Illumination....Pages 237-241
Self-Observation and Self-Referral in Lasers: An Analysis of the Transition from Quantum to Classical Behavior....Pages 243-247
Mode-Locked Superfluorescence....Pages 249-253
The Wigner Function of Two-Mode Squeezed States; Free and Dissipative Evolution....Pages 255-259
Coherent Scattering of Light in an Aharonov-Bohm Geometry....Pages 261-264
Bloch Electrons in Coherent Light: A New Type of Renormalization....Pages 265-268
Coherent Population Trapping and its Effects on Light-Induced Drift....Pages 269-273
Stochastic Resonance in Bistable Systems....Pages 275-280
Spontaneous and Induced Emission of Soft Bosons: Exact Non-Markovian Solutions....Pages 281-285
Coherence and Interference in Photoionization of a Rydberg Atom....Pages 287-293
Photon Antibunching in Spontaneous Emission from Two Nonidentical Atoms....Pages 295-299
Excitation into a Quasicontinuum by a Fluctuating Laser Field....Pages 301-304
Stimulated Photon Echo Induced by Broad-Bandwidth Pulses....Pages 305-308
Scattering of Electromagnetic Fields of Any State Of Coherence from Fluctuating Media....Pages 309-314
Local and global bifurcations of optically-pumped three-level lasers....Pages 315-319
A New Test of Bell’s Inequality Using Optical Interference....Pages 321-325
Soliton Collisions for Quantum Non-Demolition Measurement of Photon Number: The QND Soliton Interferometer....Pages 327-331
A Semiclassical Theory of Ultrafast Pump-Probe Spectroscopy: Visualization and Interpretation of Experiment....Pages 333-337
Elimination of the Dynamics of the Rotational Levels in a Four-Level CO 2 Laser Model....Pages 339-342
Quantum Statistical Properties of Optical Phase Conjugation....Pages 343-347
Universal Normal-Form Description of Squeezing in Two-Photon Processes....Pages 349-353
Microwave Excitation and Ionization of H Atoms at High Scaled Frequencies: Comparisons of Experiments and Theories....Pages 355-359
Spectral Changes in Light Propagation from a Class of Partially Coherent Sources....Pages 361-365
Phase-Sensitive Light Amplifiers in Stellar Interferometry....Pages 367-372
Using Modulation Response to Determine Dynamical Parameters and Appropriate Models for Single-Mode Lasers....Pages 373-376
Squeezed Light and the Single Atom....Pages 377-381
Atomic Coherent States, Phase Transitions and Squeezing from Rydberg Atoms....Pages 383-387
Saturation Behavior of Parametric Four-Wave Mixing Due to Two-Photon Interference Effect....Pages 389-393
Bistability and Chaos in Counterpropagating Laser Beams....Pages 395-399
Experimental Study of Two-Photon Rabi Oscillations....Pages 401-405
Manifestation of Berry’s Phase in Parametric Amplifiers....Pages 407-410
Photo-Dynamics of a Single Trapped Three-Level Ion....Pages 411-414
Atoms in Cavities....Pages 415-418
Optical Correlation Functions and Squeezing in The Jaynes-Cummings Model....Pages 419-423
Higher Order Squeezing of Thermal Radiation through Parametric Amplification....Pages 425-429
Some Modal Expansions of Partially Coherent Fields....Pages 431-435
Two-Photon Transition Driven by Parametrically Down-Converted Light: A Linear Intensity Dependence....Pages 437-440
Quantum Noise Initiated Mode-Hopping in Semiconductor Lasers....Pages 441-446
Measurement of the Effect of Resonant Light Pressure on the Dispersion Curve of a Gas of Two-Level Atoms....Pages 447-451
Detection of Decay Processes and Cavity Fields by Means of Quantum-Jump Statistics....Pages 453-459
Diffracting Atoms from Evanescent Light Fields....Pages 461-465
Production of a (Phase) Random Telegraph Field....Pages 467-471
Composite Materials for Nonlinear Optics: Theory and Experiment....Pages 473-477
Test of the Linearity of Quantum Mechanics by RF Spectroscopy of the 9 BE + Ground State....Pages 479-481
Gain Noise in Dye Lasers....Pages 483-487
Sum and Difference Squeezing....Pages 489-492
Excitation of Three-State Atom with Minimum Population of Intermediate State....Pages 493-496
Self-Focusing Limitations on Squeezed State Generation in Two-Level Media....Pages 497-501
Observations of Sub-Poisson and Poisson Photon Statistics from the Fluorescence of Individual Barium Atoms....Pages 503-507
Enhancement of Antibunching in Second Harmonic Generation....Pages 509-512
Phase-Dependent Lineshape in Multiple Pump-Probe Interactions....Pages 513-516
Comparison of Lorenz-Like Laser Behavior with the Lorenz Model....Pages 517-520
Atom-Photon Interaction Modified by a Microwave Cavity....Pages 521-525
Influence of the Local Oscillator on Homodyne Detection of Squeezed Vacuum....Pages 527-531
Sensitivity to Initial Conditions in Classical and Quantum Dynamics....Pages 533-537
Quantum Optics of Single, Trapped Ions....Pages 539-543
Generation, Detection and Applications of Sub-Poissonian Light....Pages 545-551
The Spectrum of Radiation from a Moving Source of Any State of Coherence....Pages 553-557
Intermittency and Chaos in Intracavity Doubled Lasers....Pages 559-563
Rectification of the Light Pressure Force Acting on a Three-State Atom....Pages 565-569
Optical Second-Harmonic Generation from Jellium. The Collective-Mode Pattern Studied Via the Nonlinear Energy Reflection Coefficient....Pages 571-575
Squeezing in Two-Photon Optical Bistability and Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing....Pages 577-581
Metric-Perturbed Shifts in Super-Radiant States....Pages 583-587
Optical Second-Harmonic Generation and Rectification in a Superconductor with Cooper-Pairing....Pages 589-593
Optical Spectra of a Strongly Coupled System of Atoms in a Cavity Driven by Squeezed Light....Pages 595-599
The Squeezing of Fock and Thermal Field States....Pages 601-605
Dissipative Quantum Dynamics in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics....Pages 607-608
Scaling of Spontaneous Emission and Intermolecular Interactions in a Dielectric Medium Using Polaritons....Pages 609-613
Excited-State Relaxation Dynamics in a Continuous-Wave Dye Laser....Pages 615-619
Temporal Instabilities and Chaos in Photorefractive Four-Wave Mixing....Pages 621-624
Diagrammatic Methods for Nonlinear Response of a System Dressed by Resonant External Fields....Pages 625-625
Spatial Quantum Fluctuations in Stimulated Raman Scattering....Pages 627-630
Field-Matter Interactions in Photonic Bandgaps....Pages 631-635
Detection of Squeezed Light by Coherently Superposed Detector States....Pages 637-641
Analysis of Super-Gaussian Statistics of N-Harmonic Fields by Nonlinear Gaussian Expansions....Pages 643-647
Transient Squeezing and Time-Dependent Spectra of a Strongly Driven Three-Level Atom Undergoing Quantum Jumps....Pages 649-652
Delayed Feedback Acting as Noise to Induce Phase Transitions....Pages 653-657
Spectral Analysis for the Coherence Collapsed Diode Laser....Pages 659-663
On the Analogy Between Electrons and Light....Pages 665-668
Population Trapping Effect for System With Double Autoionizing Levels....Pages 669-673
Information Performance for a Binary Channel with Photoncounting Detection....Pages 675-679
Heterodyne Spectrum of the Fluorescence from Optical Molasses....Pages 681-684
An Infinite Ladder Coupled to a Quantum Mode; An Exactly Solvable Quantum Model....Pages 685-689
Super-Regenerative Laser Receiver....Pages 691-695
Very High Order Harmonic Conversion of an Intense Yag Laser Radiation in Rare Gases....Pages 697-701
Spatially-Localized Two-Particle Interference at a Beam Splitter....Pages 703-708
Comparative Study of Various Quasiprobability Distributions in a Two-Photon Correlated-Emission Laser....Pages 709-713
Quantum Theory of Two-Photon Correlated-Spontaneous-Emission Lasers: Exact Atom-Field Interaction Hamiltonian Approach....Pages 715-719
Nonlinear Dynamics of Raman Lasers in the Good and Bad Cavity Limit....Pages 721-725
A Monte Carlo Study of Superradiance....Pages 727-730
Polarization Dynamics in a Quasi-Isotropic Laser....Pages 731-735
Understanding Squeezed States and their Detection Using the Schrödinger Picture....Pages 737-741
Para-Bose Squeezed States....Pages 743-746
Measurements, Dynamics and State Preparation in a Micromaser....Pages 747-751
Preparation of Nonclassical States by Conditional Measurement....Pages 753-757
Observation of Chaos in a Passive Nonlinear Resonator....Pages 759-762
Optically Induced Coherent Spin Transients in an Atomic Ground State....Pages 763-767
Stability Analysis of Active Mode-Locking Through Loss Modulation....Pages 769-773
Continuous and Discontinuous Phase Transitions in the Laser with a Saturable Absorber....Pages 775-779
Polaritons and Retarded Interactions in Nonlinear Optical Susceptibilities....Pages 781-785
Monolithic Optical Parametric Oscillators for Quantum Optics....Pages 787-791
Instabilities of a Coupled Cavity Laser....Pages 793-797
Spatial Instabilities and Symmetry Breaking in Lasers....Pages 799-808
Exact Quantum Theory of a Rydberg Atom in Cavities of Arbitrary Q at Finite Temperature T, and the 85 Rb Atom Maser....Pages 809-813
Depletion Effects in Second Harmonic Generation with a Partially Coherent Beam....Pages 815-819
Tunneling and Resonances in MIE Scattering....Pages 821-825
Frequency Locking, Quasiperiodicity and Chaos in Modulated External Cavity Injection Lasers....Pages 827-833
Adiabatic Elimination for Laser Equations via Center Manifold Theory....Pages 835-839
On the Phase-Space Approach to Squeezed Phenomena in Quantum Optics....Pages 841-843
Optical Phase Information Due to the Vacuum in Two-Photon Down-Conversion....Pages 845-846
Transient Response of a Two-Level Atom to Bichromatic Excitation with Pump Detuning....Pages 847-851
Correlated Decay of Atoms Interacting with Broad Band Squeezed Light....Pages 853-857
Transverse Modulational Instabilities in Kerr Media....Pages 859-863
Subharmonic Bifurcation Route to Chaos in Asymmetric External Cavity Semiconductor Lasers....Pages 865-869
The Effect of Dissipation on Macroscopic Quantum Coherence in a Double Well System....Pages 871-875
Quantum Theory of Nondegenerate Four-Wave Mixing in Semiconductor Media....Pages 877-881
Exact Geometrical Description of Free Space Radiative Energy Transfer for Scalar Wavefields....Pages 883-887
Squeezed State Generation and Nonclassical Correlations in Nondegenerate Parametric Down Conversion....Pages 889-890
Principal Squeezing in Optical Devices....Pages 891-895
Gas Ring Lasers with Backscattering: One-Time Statistical Properties and Intensity Correlation Functions....Pages 897-900
Fractal Properties of the Rotating Wave Van der Pol Oscillator with Phase....Pages 901-908
Instabilities in Degenerate Subharmonic Generation....Pages 909-914
Correlation Functions of a He:Ne Laser with Multiplicative White Noise....Pages 915-919
How Strongly Can We Correlate Two Optical Fields?....Pages 921-924
Brillouin Enhanced Reflectivity for Different Intensity Pump Waves....Pages 925-929
Generalized Jump Model for Phase Fluctuations in Nonlinear Optics....Pages 931-935
Light Forces and Atom Diffraction — An Illustrated Summary....Pages 937-942
Collective Dynamical Statistical, and Equilibrium Properties of N Rydberg Atoms Making 2-Photon Transitions....Pages 943-947
On the Characteristics of Rabi Oscillations in a Coherently Prepared Two Level Atom in the Binomial State of the Field....Pages 949-953
Wigner Distribution Function for Optical Fields and its Application to the Detection of Squeezed States....Pages 955-959
Quantum Statistical Analysis of Superflourescence and Amplified Spontaneous Emission in the Dense Atomic Systems....Pages 961-965
G (2) (0) and the Two-Photon Transition Rate: An Experimental Study....Pages 967-970
Spatially Separated Two Color Photons in Fourth Order Interference....Pages 971-975
Temporal Quantum Fluctuations in Stimulated Raman Scattering....Pages 977-980
Optical Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Correlations....Pages 981-985
Nonclassical Radiation in the One-Atom Maser....Pages 987-991
A Semi-Classical Linear Input Output Transformation for Quantum Fluctuations....Pages 993-997
Quasiprobabilities for the Jaynes-Cummings Model with Damping....Pages 999-1003
Strong Field Ionization in Classical and Quantum Dynamics....Pages 1005-1012
Atomic Systems Driven by Colored Squeezed Light....Pages 1013-1017
Amplitude and Phase Dynamics of Superradiant and Raman Pulse Trains....Pages 1019-1021
Absorptive Optical Bistability in Two-State Atoms....Pages 1023-1027
Spontaneous Spatial Symmetry Breaking in a Fabry-Perot Cavity....Pages 1029-1033
Resonance Behavior of a Two-Level Atom Driven by Amplitude- or Frequency-Modulated Fields....Pages 1035-1039
Intrinsic Optical Bistability in a Cavity....Pages 1041-1045
On the Quantum Malus Law for Photon and Spin Quantum Correlations....Pages 1047-1050
Theory of the Correlated-Spontaneous-Emission Laser....Pages 1051-1054
A New Projection-Operator Method for Treating Interactions of Atoms with Radiation Field....Pages 1055-1058
Deviations from Exponential Decay in the Spontaneous Emission by a Two-Level Hydrogenic Atom....Pages 1059-1063
Collective Radiation Inhibition Effects in the Many-Atom Jaynes-Cummings Model....Pages 1065-1069
A New Number-Phase Uncertainty Principle....Pages 1071-1075
Coherent Phase State and Squeezed Phase State....Pages 1077-1081
Geometric Representation for Squeezing: The abcd-Law....Pages 1083-1087
Geometric Phases in Optics: Some Pedestrian Considerations....Pages 1089-1093
Intensity Fluctuation Suppression in Injection — Locked Dye Ring Laser....Pages 1095-1099
Radiation from an Atom Located in the Vicinity of Dielectric — Space-Time Analysis....Pages 1101-1105
Schrödinger Kittens from Optical Back-Action Evasion....Pages 1107-1111
Superradiant Effects in Photon Echo Decays -The Superradiant Echo....Pages 1113-1117
Photon Band Structure....Pages 1119-1123
Quantum Fluctuations in the Stimulated Raman Scattering Spectrum....Pages 1125-1129
Experimental Test of the Optical Bloch Equations for Solids Using Free Induction Decay and Hole-Burning....Pages 1131-1135
Bistability and Optically Induced Switching of Spatial Field Patterns in a Laser....Pages 1137-1140
Transverse Mode Structure of Laser Beams Determined from Spatial Coherence....Pages 1141-1145
Transient Spectrum of Two Level Atoms Interacting with Amplitude Modulated Intense Radiation....Pages 1147-1151
A Theory for Second Harmonic Generation in Dense Atomic Vapour....Pages 1153-1157
Two Pulse Nonlinear Excitations in Optical Fibers....Pages 1159-1163
On the Theory of Slow Identical Atom Collisions in a Radiation Field....Pages 1165-1169
Bistable and Sustained Oscillatory Behaviour of Coherently Pumped Three Level CW Laser....Pages 1171-1176
Bidirectional Laser with an Injected Signal: An Optical Switch....Pages 1177-1181
Nonlinear Interaction of Modes in the Ring Laser with a Saturable Absorber....Pages 1183-1187
Photon Counting Statistics of Squeezed Light....Pages 1189-1193
Transient and Spectral Properties of Several Rydberg Atoms in a Squeezed Vacuum....Pages 1195-1200
Amplitude Noise Reduction in Quietly Pumped Lasers....Pages 1201-1205
Coherence Properties of Light Propagating in a One-Dimensional Lorentz Medium....Pages 1207-1211
Resonance Fluorescence, Amplitude Modulation and Fibonacci Numbers....Pages 1213-1217
Quantum Noise Reduction in Photodetection Processes....Pages 1219-1221
Instabilities and Chaos in Phase Locked Semiconductor Laser Arrays....Pages 1223-1227
Quantum Jumps and Continuous Observations....Pages 1229-1231
Optical Resonance Equations in the Presence of Strong Radiation and Shot-Noise Collisions....Pages 1233-1234
On the Possibility of Generating Doppler-Like Frequency Shifts of Spectral Lines by Scattering from Space-Time Fluctuations....Pages 1235-1238
Photoelectron Counting Statistics for the Degenerate Parametric Oscillator....Pages 1239-1242
Macroscopic Quantum Jumps from a Two-Atom System....Pages 1243-1247
Enhanced and inhibited spontaneous emission of free excitons in GaAs quantum wells in a Micro-cavity....Pages 1249-1257
The Production and Detection of Spatially Localized Atomic Electron Wave Packets....Pages 1259-1263
Efficient Photon Number Detection....Pages 1265-1268
Hanle Effect in Frequency Dependent Photon Reservoir....Pages 1269-1272
Multimode Semiconductor Laser Theory with Application to Sidemode Generation....Pages 1273-1277
Photostatistics of Continuous-Wave Squeezed Light....Pages 1279-1283
Lasing Without Inversion Due to Initial Coherence between Lower Atomic States....Pages 1285-1289
Polarization of Dressed Atom-Field States in the Transient and Steady-State Regimes....Pages 1291-1295
Experimental Study of the Fluorescence Spectrum Emitted by Two-Level Atoms under Strong Bichromatic Excitation....Pages 1297-1301
Back Matter....Pages 1303-1328