Coherence and Quantum Optics VIII: Proceedings of the Eighth Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics, held at the University of Rochester, June 13–16, 2001

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
The Early Days of Quantum Optics in France....Pages 1-17
Early History of Bell’s Theorem....Pages 19-43
Cavity QED with Strong Coupling — Toward the Deterministic Control of Quantum Dynamics....Pages 45-54
Fast and slow light....Pages 55-70
Controlling Quantum Rotation with Light....Pages 71-86
Retrodictive Quantum Optics....Pages 87-94
Spontaneous Intrinsic Decoherence in Two and Three Slits Young Interference Experiments....Pages 95-105
All optical formation of a Bose Einstein condensate....Pages 107-107
Faster-than-light propagations and their applications....Pages 109-123
Beyond diffraction limit in optical lithography via quantum entanglement....Pages 125-125
“Stopping” of light and quantum memories for photons....Pages 127-127
Quantum aspects of imaging....Pages 129-129
Polarization dynamics of a two-photon laser....Pages 131-136
Atomic Clocks and Cold Atom Scattering....Pages 137-145
Manipulating Entanglement with atoms and photons in a box....Pages 147-154
Taming light with cold atoms: light at bicycle speed.… and slower yet!....Pages 155-155
Dark Resonances in Solids for Quantum Computing and Slow Light....Pages 157-163
Quantum Dot Single Photon Source....Pages 165-170
Coherence and collective behavior in Bose-Einstein condensates....Pages 171-171
Sub-diffraction-limited resolution with squeezed light....Pages 173-184
Fiber generated quantum correlations for quantum-optical communications....Pages 185-185
JC photons in frequency continua: Exact solution and quantum features....Pages 187-191
A Bose Einstein condensate of metastable helium atoms....Pages 193-200
Quantum interferometry with fiber solitons — a direct experimental test of non-separability....Pages 201-210
Nonlinear atom optics: bosons vs fermions....Pages 211-211
Instability, area quantization and area gaps in cavity-accelerated superradiant atom-cavity systems....Pages 213-221
Multitime coherent spectroscopies of complex molecules: from infrared to X-ray....Pages 223-223
Wave-particle correlations of non-classical light....Pages 225-232
Real-Time Control of Atomic Motion Using Feedback....Pages 233-240
Single atoms and single photons in cavity quantum electrodynamics....Pages 241-248
Nontrivial analogies between quantum optics and Bose-Einstein condensation....Pages 249-249
Hyperentanglement in Parametric Down-Conversion....Pages 251-258
Coherence in an Optically Trapped Fermi Gas....Pages 259-262
Generation of photon number states by cavity quantum electrodynamics....Pages 263-275
Superluminal Light Pulse Propagation at a Negative Group Velocity....Pages 277-286
Decoherence of trapped-atom motional state superpositions....Pages 287-295
Recent advances in teleportation of entanglement and in fullerene interference....Pages 297-297
Nonclassical, two-photon interferometry and lithography with high-gain optical parametric amplifiers....Pages 299-300
Simultaneous quantum state measurements using array detection....Pages 301-302
Quantum positioning system....Pages 303-304
High-frequency, time-domain, optical homodyne tomography....Pages 305-306
Coherent control of atoms in an optical lattice....Pages 307-308
Photoionization of Bose-Einstein condensates....Pages 309-310
Quantum noise in coupled atomic and molecular Bose-Einstein condensates....Pages 311-312
Cavity-QED with a single ion....Pages 313-314
Superradiance in photonic crystals....Pages 315-316
Temporal and spatial coherence properties of nonstationary polychromatic light sources in one-dimensional photonic band-gap structures.....Pages 317-318
Effect of measurements of collective observables on a single atom....Pages 319-320
Experimental Demonstration of Wave Chaos in a Conventional Optical Resonator....Pages 321-322
Bell state preparation using pulsed non-degenerate two-photon entanglement....Pages 323-324
Efficient collection of polarization-entangled photons on type-II parametric down Conversion....Pages 325-326
A Stochastic Map for Qubit Decoherence....Pages 327-328
Fighting Decoherence With Pointer Engineering....Pages 329-330
Uncertainty Relations Associated with Correlations in Mixed Quantum States....Pages 331-332
Observation of Gouy scars in optical wave chaos....Pages 333-334
Adiabatic Wavepacket Propagation....Pages 335-336
Squeezing light in linear dispersive dielectrics....Pages 337-338
Intensity—Field and Intensity—Intensity Correlations in a Strongly Coupled Cavity QED System....Pages 339-340
Separation approach for Jaynes-Cummings model in multi-level atom....Pages 341-342
Ion Coulomb-crystals: A medium for storage of quantum states of light?....Pages 343-344
Chaotic walking of a cold atom in an ideal cavity....Pages 345-346
Feedback with conditional measurements in cavity QED....Pages 347-348
Effects of decoherence on entangled atomic wave functions in microcavities....Pages 349-350
Fiber generated quantum correlations for quantum-optical communications....Pages 351-352
Bloch-Siegert oscillation for detection and quantum teleportation of the phase of an oscillating field....Pages 353-354
Two-photon diffraction and quantum lithography....Pages 355-356
Suppressing decoherence and heating with quantum “bang-bang” controls....Pages 357-358
Entanglement disentangled by spacetime vortices....Pages 359-360
Atomic inversion for an atom coupled to a squeezed vacuum in a coherently driven cavity....Pages 361-362
Quantization of the Field in Dielectrics....Pages 363-364
Quantum optical effects across a metallic film....Pages 365-366
Coupled interferometer scheme for generating maximally entangled photonic states....Pages 367-368
Enhanced Second-Harmonic Generation due to a Local-Field Effect....Pages 369-370
Non classical behaviours of optical field in Photonics band gaps structures....Pages 371-372
The Photon Model and Non-Hermitean Modes....Pages 373-374
Induced coherence without induced emission in parametric down-conversion....Pages 375-376
Correlation functions, measurement operators, and conditioned atomic states in resonance fluorescence with spectral resolution....Pages 377-378
Quantum Algebras for Quantum Optics....Pages 379-380
A Delayed-Choice Quantum Eraser Experiment....Pages 381-382
Delayed single-photon self-interference — A double slit experiment in the time domain....Pages 383-384
Retrodiction with Two-Level Atoms: Atomic Previvals and Micromaser Field Measurements....Pages 385-385
Measurements of the geometric phase of first-order optical Gaussian beams....Pages 387-388
Fresnel diffraction of circular apertures illuminated with partially-coherent light: cross spectral density propagation....Pages 389-390
Radiation forces produced by non-paraxial beam trapping....Pages 391-392
Measurement of the polarization-induced asymmetry in focal spots....Pages 393-394
Partially coherent imaging through turbulence with an all-optical adaptive-optics system....Pages 395-396
Interrelation between spatial and temporal reciprocity inequalities of partially-coherent beams....Pages 397-398
Ultra-sensitive autocorrelation of 1.5 μm light with a photon-counting silicon avalanche photodiode....Pages 399-400
A New Phase Space Product for Light Beams of any State of Coherence....Pages 401-402
Spectral Changes in Focused Partially Coherent Wave Fields....Pages 403-404
Nonachromaticity and reversals of topological phase as a function of wavelength....Pages 405-406
The law of conservation of radiance is a consequence of the partial coherence of the optical field....Pages 407-408
Application of modal theory of coherence for nonstationary partially coherent optical fields....Pages 409-410
Photonic electro-magnetic resonance....Pages 411-412
Partially coherent volume diffraction....Pages 413-414
Inverse diffractive optics: asymptotic technique for light of any state of coherence....Pages 415-416
Demonstration of a coherent thermal source....Pages 417-418
Image reconstruction in scalar wave optics....Pages 419-420
High depth of field microscopy with an interferometric imaging system....Pages 421-422
On the nonlinear orbital motion of the driven two-photon Jaynes-Cummings model....Pages 423-424
Jaynes-Cummings model with moving phased atoms....Pages 425-426
Dynamics of two atoms coupled to a cavity field....Pages 427-428
Pattern Formation, Localization and Coherent Structures in Nonlinear Wave Dynamics....Pages 429-430
Stochastic simulations and discreteness of light....Pages 431-432
From the ordinary threshold regime to ideal thresholdless lasing....Pages 433-434
Criticality and dynamics of quantum fluctuations in an OPO....Pages 435-436
Quantum deflection of ultracold atoms by ideal mirrors....Pages 437-438
Spontaneous emission near metal-coated dielectric cylindrical structures....Pages 439-440
Time-frequency Wigner function of ultrashort light pulses....Pages 441-442
Rotation angle of the Wigner distribution function of the partially coherent fractional Fourier field....Pages 443-444
Quasiclassical Calculations of Wigner Functions in Nonlinear Dynamics via Wavelets....Pages 445-446
Quantum correlations in a passive nonlinear optical fiber resonator....Pages 447-447
Time Asymmetry in Measurements based on Photoelectric Detection....Pages 449-450
Photon correlations in the homodyne detection of squeezed light....Pages 451-452
Rigorous analysis of homodyne detection....Pages 453-454
Joint quantum measurement using unbalanced array detection....Pages 455-456
A new view of Bell’s inequalities....Pages 457-458
An experiment for testing de Broglie — Bohm theory against standard quantum mechanics....Pages 459-459
Bell’s inequalities for multiphoton states....Pages 461-462
Testing Bell Inequalities in Photonic Crystals....Pages 463-464
On the detection of single mode quantum coherence at optical frequencies....Pages 465-466
Soliton interaction control in coherently excited three-level system embedded in a nonlinear waveguide....Pages 467-468
Nonexponential decoherence of coherent state superposition in degenerate optical parametric amplifier....Pages 469-470
Decoherence Control by Homodyne-Mediated Feedback....Pages 471-473
Quantum control of population inversion in the presence of spontaneous emission....Pages 475-476
Decoherence of a trapped ion: The combined effect of the micromotion and the stray fields on the fidelity of motional states....Pages 477-478
Coherent control of the excitation routes in four-wave mixing with Rydberg levels....Pages 479-480
Cold collision control in Cavity QED....Pages 481-482
Wave packet control in the Fourier time basis....Pages 483-484
Vacuum noise in presence of atoms....Pages 485-486
Quantum interference effect in molecular system....Pages 487-488
Lighting a dark state by shaping of light-induced potentials....Pages 489-490
Dynamical Creation of Entanglement by Feedback....Pages 491-492
State-selective phase control of molecular wave packets in two electronic states....Pages 493-494
Quasimodes and pseudomodes in structured reservoirs....Pages 495-496
Pulse generation in vibrating cavities....Pages 497-498
New ultra-bright source of entangled photons....Pages 499-500
Source of photon-number-squeezed light with adjustable level of squeezing....Pages 501-502
High-visibility two-photon interference in femtosecond pulse pumped type-II SPDC....Pages 503-504
Four Photon Entanglement from Parametric Down Conversion....Pages 505-506
Observation of time-dependent inhibited spontaneous emission....Pages 507-508
Conditional coherence via phase-sensitive postselection....Pages 509-510
Quantum descriptions of light propagation in a parametric amplifier....Pages 511-512
Higher order photon statistics of intracavity second harmonic generation....Pages 513-514
Observation of Nonclassical Photon Statistics in Two-Photon Interference....Pages 515-516
Demonstration of the complementarity of one-and two-photon interference....Pages 517-518
The role of hyperentanglement in quantum interferometry....Pages 519-519
Eliminating frequency and space-time entanglement in multi-photon states....Pages 521-522
OPO in transverse degenerate cavities: multimode operation and spatial quantum effects....Pages 523-524
Optical Patterns Sustained by Quantum Noise....Pages 525-526
Continuously induced coherence and quantum Zeno effect....Pages 527-528
Towards a quantum Zeno tomography....Pages 529-530
Separability of Gaussian States....Pages 531-532
Wigner function dynamics on the sphere....Pages 533-534
An experiment on the stimulated emission of the evanescent photon....Pages 535-536
Nonclassical Measure of Multi-mode Radiation Field....Pages 537-538
Generation of states with holes in the photon distribution at controlled positions....Pages 539-540
The spin-orbit decomposition of the angular momentum of free electromagnetic fields is artificial....Pages 541-542
Heisenberg equation-of-motion methods applied to non-Markovian open systems....Pages 543-544
A phase operator from discretized complete set of coherent states....Pages 545-546
Dynamics of a two-photon laser....Pages 547-548
The principles of active spectroscopy of elastic light scattering....Pages 549-550
Off-diagonal radiative-decay-coupled optical transitions in double quantum wells....Pages 551-552
Forward four-wave mixing mediated by a Kerr nonlinearity....Pages 553-554
Honeycomb Pattern Formation by Laser-Beam Filamentation in Atomic Sodium Vapor....Pages 555-556
Initiation of superfluorescence: Collective and noncollective emission....Pages 557-558
Frequency offset locking of 35 mW 657nm visible laser diodes....Pages 559-560
Collective interaction between radiation and atoms: phase transition, optical gratings and the influence of the modeling hypotheses....Pages 561-562
Local field effects on the spatiotemporal dynamics of broad-area two-level lasers....Pages 563-564
Dynamics of multiple-collapse with ultrashort laser pulses....Pages 565-566
Spectroscopic Methods for Subwavelength Atom Localization....Pages 567-568
Laser Accelerating of Neutral Atoms: Vecksler-Macmillan Phase Stability....Pages 569-570
Self-Pulsing in an Optical Ring Cavity Coupled with Three-Level Atoms....Pages 571-572
Matter-Wave Mixing by Optical Cavity Fields....Pages 573-574
Saturation law and the resonance fluorescence spectrum of a forced two-level atom described by modified optical Bloch equations....Pages 575-576
Efficient 1-D Velocity Selection in Laser-Cooled Atom Clouds....Pages 577-578
Integrability, Chaos and Mixed Phase-Space in Atom Optics Billiards....Pages 579-580
Atom lasers, coherent states, and coherence....Pages 581-582
Atom laser dynamics....Pages 583-584
Atom-Laser Line-Narrowing by Feedback....Pages 585-586
Coherence in an Optically Trapped Fermi Gas....Pages 587-588
Phonon excitations and stability of a Bose-Fermi mixture quantum gas....Pages 589-590
Slow Polaritons in Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates....Pages 591-592
Master Equation Approach for an Ideal Bose Gas....Pages 593-594
Monopole charge distributions of rotating condensates....Pages 595-596
Observation of vortex phase singularities in stirred Bose-Einstein condensates....Pages 597-598
Inner-shell x-ray lasing without population inversion....Pages 599-600
Spatiotemporal dynamics of three-level inversionless lasers....Pages 601-602
Spectral width of electromagnetically induced transparency in hot atomic gases....Pages 603-604
Absorptive photon switching by quantum interference....Pages 605-606
Coherent VUV and XUV production enhanced by EIT....Pages 607-608
Laser Cooling of an EIT material inside a double cavity....Pages 609-610
Lambda propagation laws....Pages 611-612
Signal velocity and quantum fluctuation in superluminal light pulse propagation....Pages 613-614
Slow light in a solid without using electromagnetically induced transparency....Pages 615-616
Electromagnetically induced transparency with standing-wave drive in the frequency up-conversion regime....Pages 617-618
Pulse propagation in a high-gain bichromatically-driven Raman amplifier....Pages 619-620
Superluminal nonlinear anti-echos....Pages 621-622
On the collisional cooling of co-trapped atomic and molecular ions by ultracold atoms: Ca + + Na and Na 2 + (v*,J* ) + Na.....Pages 623-624
Mandel’s Q -parameters for the outcoming atom statistics of a micromaser....Pages 625-626
Finite temperature correlations in the trapped Bose-Einstein gas....Pages 627-629
Quantum solitons as possible qubits....Pages 631-632
Manifestation of classical phase in a single spontaneously emitted photon....Pages 633-634
Dynamics of single-atom, single-photon trapping in cavity QED....Pages 635-636
Entanglement in cascaded-crystal parametric down-conversion....Pages 637-637
Absorption spectra of the four level N system with two strong fields, in laser-cooled rubidium....Pages 639-640
From local to non local entanglement....Pages 641-642
Leonard Mandel Symposium....Pages 643-648
A Thumb-Nail Sketch of the Career of Professor Leonard Mandel....Pages 649-655
Dye and ring laser experiments or: Photon statistics of lasers and atoms (and a whole lot of other stuff)....Pages 657-666
Parametric Down-Conversion: The Twins are born for a Life of Entanglement....Pages 667-672
The Quantum Phase — A New theory Meets Experiment....Pages 673-678
Parametric Downconversion II — The Twins Grow Up....Pages 679-696
Back Matter....Pages 697-710