Elements of quantum optics

Elements of Quantum Optics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-507

  Meystre, Pierre ^a   Sargent III, Murray ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

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204. There are a number of excellent reviews on cavity QED. They include Berman, P. (1994), Ed., Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics, Advances in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Supplement 2, Academic Press, San Diego.
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206. Haroche, S. (1992), in Fundamental Systems in Quantum Optics, ed. by J. Dalibard et al., Elsevier, Amsterdam.
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208. Milonni, P. (1994), The Quantum Vacuum, Academic Press, Boston also gives an introduction to cavity QED in the more general framework of low energy quantum electrodynamics.