Single–photon Devices and Applications

The control of single–photon generation and control is of vital importance to the rapidly growing field of quantum computing. The literature in this field has a hard time catching up with the progress in a coherent way that′s accessible to advanced students. Single–photon Devices and Applications fills this wide open gap, with authors well positioned to write this text. The book also includes problems at the end of each chapter with a solutions manual available.

Spis treści:
Introduction
Single Photon Generation from a 2level quantum emitter in a cavity
Coherent photon emission from a 3level lambda system in a cavity
Effects of Decoherence
Experimental Techniques
Atomlike systems in solids useful for singlephoton generation
Survey of microcavity geometries
Applications


Nota biograficzna:
Charles Santori, after having earned his degrees and resarch experience at Stanford, Tokyo University and MIT, joined the Hewlett–Packard Labs to be tasked with the high gain, high risk research on quantum computing.
Numerous papers and awards prove his standing.
David Fattal has received his higher degrees at the Ecole Polytechnique in France and at Stanford. Then he joined HP to perform research on various aspects of quantum information and nanophotonics.
Professor Yoshihisa Yamamoto has performed his research at Tokyo University, MIT, Stanford and other prestigious institutions before he became professor at Stanford.
He teaches various courses on quantum optics and has published more than 350 papers and two books.