Vacuum Fluctuations and Spontaneous Emission in Quantum Optics

abstract

• Several quantum optics problems in which spontaneous emission and/or vacuum fluctuations play an important role are discussed. These include the spontaneous decay of an atom and the damping of the field in a cavity (both in the presence of ordinary and `squeezed' vacuum), the correlated (spontaneous) emission laser or CEL, and quantum beats in V- and -type three-level atoms. 1988 IOP Publishing Ltd.

authors

• Scully, Marlan

published proceedings

• Physica Scripta

author list (cited authors)

• Gea-Banacloche, J., Scully, M. O., & Zubairy, M. S.

citation count

• 27

complete list of authors

• Gea-Banacloche, J||Scully, MO||Zubairy, MS

publication date

• January 1988

publisher

• IOP Publishing  Publisher

published in

• Physica Scripta  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1088/0031-8949/1988/t21/015

start page

• 81

end page

• 85

volume

• T21

issue

• T21

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/1988/t21/015