Table of Contents

Preface
1: Planck's radiation law and the Einstein coefficients
2: Quantum mechanics of the atom-radiation interaction
3: Classical theory of optical fluctuations and coherence
4: Quantization of the radiation field
5: Single-mode quantum optics
6: Multimode and continuous-mode quantum optics
7: Optical generation, attenuation and amplification
8: Resonance fluorescence and light scattering
9: Nonlinear quantum optics
Index

About the Author

Rodney Loudon, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, University of Essex