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<i>Quantum Statistics of Linear and Nonlinear Optical Phenomena</i>
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Quantum PhotonicsEngineeringQuantum GeneratorsNonlinear OpticsQuantum PhenomenaCoherenceStatistical OpticsQuantum StatisticsQuantum EngineeringQuantum ComputingOptical PropertiesQuantum EntanglementQuantum MatterQuantum OpticsQuantum SciencePhotonicsPhysicsQuantum InformationPhoton StatisticQuantum OpticNatural SciencesApplied PhysicsQuantum Statistical PropertiesQuantum SystemCoherent Process
Quantum statistical properties of radiation are a key area of modern physics with growing applications in spectroscopy, quantum light sources, optical communication, and interdisciplinary fields such as biophysics and psychophysics. The monograph extends prior work by applying coherent‑state techniques to analyze quantum statistical properties of radiation in matter interactions, focusing on nonlinear optical processes and photon antibunching. The book serves as a valuable resource for researchers and students in quantum optics, electronics, quantum light sources, optical communication, and solid‑state physics. Published recently, the monograph builds on the author's earlier works, including *Coherence of Light* and a 1980 review chapter in *Progress in Optics*.
The quantum statistical properties of radiation represent an important branch of modern physics with rapidly increasing applications in spectroscopy, quantum generators of radiation, optical communication, etc. They have also an increasing role in fields other than pure physics, such as biophysics, psychophysics, biology, etc. The present monograph represents an extension and continuation of the previous monograph of this author entitled Coherence of Light (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, London 1972, translated into Russian in the Publishing House Mir, Moscow 1974) and of a review chapter in Progress in Optics, Vol. 18 (E. Wolf (Ed. ), North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam 1980), published just recently. It applies the fundamental tools of the coherent-state technique, as described in Coherence of Light, to particular studies of the quantum statistical properties of radiation in its interaction with matter. In particular, nonlinear optical processes are considered, and purely quantum phenomena such as antibunching of photons are discussed. This book will be useful to research workers in the fields of quantum optics and electronics, quantum generators, optical communication and solid-state physics, as well as to students of physics, optical engineering and opto-electronics.