Quantum Metrology, Imaging, and Communication

This book describes the experimental and theoretical bases for the development of specifically quantum-mechanical approaches to metrology, imaging, and communication. In particular, it presents novel techniques developed over the last two decades and explicates them both theoretically and by reference to experiments which demonstrate their principles in practice. The particular techniques explored include two-photon interferometry, two-photon optical aberration and dispersion cancellation, lithography, microscopy, and cryptography.

List of contents

Quantum Optics and Entanglement.- Two-Photon Interference- Aberration and Dispersion Cancelation.- Quantum Metrology.- Polarization Mode Dispersion.- Ghost Imaging and Related Topics.- Quantum Microscopy.- Correlated and Entangled Orbital Angular Momentum.- Quantum Communication and Cryptography.- Appendices A: Review of Optics.- B: Optical Fields in Quantum Mechanics.- C: Optical Effects of Aberration and Turbulence.- D: Phase Matching in Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion.- E: Vectorial Scattering Analysis of the Twin-Photon Microscope.

About the author

David Simon. Professor, Stonehill College, Easton MA 02357, USA 

Gregg Jaeger, Professor, Boston University, Boston MA 02215, USA

Alexander V. Sergienko, Boston University, Boston MA 02215, USA

Summary

This book describes the experimental and theoretical bases for the development of specifically quantum-mechanical approaches to metrology, imaging, and communication. In particular, it presents novel techniques developed over the last two decades and explicates them both theoretically and by reference to experiments which demonstrate their principles in practice. The particular techniques explored include two-photon interferometry, two-photon optical aberration and dispersion cancellation, lithography, microscopy, and cryptography.

Product details

• Authors: Greg Jaeger, Gregg Jaeger, Alexander Sergienko, Alexander V. Sergienko, David Simon, David S Simon, David S. Simon
• Assisted by: Davi S Simon (Editor), David S Simon (Editor), David Simon (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319465494
• ISBN: 978-3-31-946549-4
• No. of pages: 273
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 243 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 588 g
• Illustrations: XII, 273 p. 105 illus., 68 illus. in color.
• Series: Quantum Science and Technology; Quantum Science and Technology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; B, Optische Physik, Materialwissenschaft, Quantum Optics, Quantum Physics, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), Physics and Astronomy, Quantum computers, Spintronics, Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics, Quantum Optical Metrology