Quantum Optics VI: Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Quantum Optics, Rotorua, New Zealand, January 24–28, 1994 (Springer Proceedings in Physics, 77)

**Quantum Optics VI** documents the most recent theoretical and experimental developments in this field, with particular emphasis on atomic optics and interferometry, which is a new and rapidly developing area of research. New methods for quantum-noise reduction are also covered. Front Matter....Pages I-XI Front Matter....Pages 1-1 An Axially Symmetric Imaging System for Ultra-Cold Neutral Atoms....Pages 3-7 Matter-Wave Optics and Interferometry with Laser-Cooled Atoms....Pages 8-17 Towards a Cold-Atom Matter-Wave Interferometer....Pages 18-26 Uncertainty-Principle-Limited Position Measurement of Moving Atoms....Pages 27-35 Atoms Optics with Standing Waves of Light....Pages 36-46 Front Matter....Pages 47-47 Quantum Effects in Atomic Diffraction and Reflection....Pages 49-58 Theory of Interactions Between Laser-Cooled Atoms....Pages 59-67 Many-Body Theory of Atom Optics....Pages 68-77 Bragg Scattering of a Coherent Ultracold Atomic Beam in Nonlinear Atom Optics....Pages 78-86 Atom Optics in Quantized Light Fields....Pages 87-102 Quantum Nonlinear Dynamics in Atom Optics....Pages 103-111 Non-Classical States of Motion and Quantum Collapse and Revival in an Ion Trap....Pages 112-120 Front Matter....Pages 121-121 Quantum Non-Demolition Measurements and Back-Action-Induced Squeezing in Atomic-Three-Level Systems....Pages 123-133 Competing χ (2) Nonlinearities in a Cavity....Pages 134-141 Measurement Effects on Quantum Optical Systems....Pages 142-152 Quantum-Optical Phase and Its Measurement....Pages 153-161 Nonlinear Quantum Optics with Few Atoms....Pages 162-172 Dissipative Environments: Quantum Jumps or Phase-Space Localization?....Pages 173-183 Ponderomotive Control of Quantum Noise....Pages 184-193 Quantum Soliton Collisions: Logic and QND....Pages 194-202 Front Matter....Pages 121-121 Nonlinear and Quantum Dynamics of an Optical Cavity Containing Cold Atoms....Pages 203-210 Quantum Optics with Mirrors....Pages 211-218 Decoherence: Is Dissipation All It Takes?....Pages 219-223 Front Matter....Pages 225-225 Quantum Optical Correlations: A Green’s Function Approach....Pages 227-235 Wigner Distributions for Quantum States with Minimum Phase Uncertainty....Pages 236-244 Spatial and Temporal Optical Field Reconstruction Using Phase-Space Tomography....Pages 245-253 Driving Atoms with Light of Arbitrary Statistics....Pages 254-261 Quantum Trajectories and Stochastic Schrödinger Equation for Nonlinear Optical Processes....Pages 262-271 Front Matter....Pages 273-273 Intensity Coherence in Multimode Lasers....Pages 275-284 Electron-Photon Manipulation with Sub-Poissonian Semiconductor Junction Arrays....Pages 285-295 Near Dipole-Dipole Effects in Nonlinear and Quantum Optics with Applications to Piezophotonic Switching....Pages 296-305 A Superradiant Laser....Pages 306-312 Laser-Induced Processes in Molecular Systems....Pages 313-320 Coherent Pulse Propagation in Mode-Locked Laser Systems....Pages 321-329 Long-Range Atom-Dielectric Interactions....Pages 330-338 Back Matter....Pages 339-340