Introduction to Quantum Optics: From Light Quanta to Quantum Teleportation

The purpose of this book is to provide a physical understanding of photons and their properties and applications. Special emphasis is given in the text to photon pairs produced in spontaneous parametric, down-conversion, which exhibit intrinsically quantum mechanical correlations, known as entanglement, and which extend over manifestly macroscopic distances. Such photon pairs are well suited to the physical realization of Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky type experiments, and also make possible such exciting techniques as quantum cryptography and teleportation.

本書的目的是提供光子及其性質和應用的物理理解。文本特別強調在自發參數下轉換中產生的光子對，這些光子對展示了內在的量子機械相關性，即所謂的納入纖維距離的納入纖維距離。這樣的光子對非常適合實現愛因斯坦-羅森-波多爾斯基類型的實驗，並且還可以實現令人興奮的技術，如量子密碼學和遠程傳輸。