Coherence and Quantum Optics VI: Proceedings of the Sixth Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics Held at the University of Rochester, Ju (Hardcover, 1989)

Emission Frequency of a Homogeneously Broadened Laser Operating below Threshold.- Dynamics of the NH3 FIR Laser and the Lorenz Model.- Quantum Theory of Interaction of a Resonant Field with a Nonlinear Medium Modelled as an Anharmonic Oscillator.- Quantum Effects in Light Propagation through a Nonlinear Medium.- Cooperative Modulation Instability in Dispersive Nonlinear Media.- Large Scale Transverse Interactions in Nonlinear Optical System with 2D-Feedback; Generation, Hysteresis and Interaction of Wave Structures.- Single-Atom Cavity-Enhanced Absorption: Steady-State Field in the Strong-Coupling Limit.- Quantum Theory of Multiwave Mixing in a Squeezed Vacuum.- Measuring the Wigner Angle with a Parametric Amplifier.- Delayed Bifurcations in a CO2 Laser with a Slowly Swept Pump.- Experimental Characterization of Shil'nikov Chaos by Statistics of Return Times.- Determination of a Small Photon Number by Statistical Amplifying Transients.- Progress in Modelling Coherently Pumped Far-Infrared Laser Dynamics.- Extraordinary Behavior of Atoms near a Phase Conjugator.- Squeezed Light Generation with an Incoherent Pump.- Three Wave Mixing for Multimode Beams.- Dimensionality Studies of Chaotic Attractors in Laser with Injected Signal.- Applications of the Optical Phase Operator.- Classically Chaotic Near-Classical Microwave Ionization.- Angular Correlations of Bosons and Fermions.- The Physics of Stored Laser Cooled Ion Clusters: Phase Transitions in a System with only a Few Degrees of Freedom.- Theory of the Two-Photon Laser: Cross-Correlation and Laser Thresholds.- Nonclassical Photon Correlations in Cavity QED.- Silicon Avalanche Photodetectors for Quantum Optics Experiments: Sub-Geiger Performance.- Comparisons of Two Theories of Scattering from Quasi-Homogeneous Media.- Photon-Number Distributions for Number-State Homodyne Photomixing at a Lossless Beam Splitter.- Models and Approximations for Instabilities in Standing-Wave Lasers.- Near Threshold Behavior of Multimode CW Dye Lasers with an Amplitude Modulated Pump.- Radiation Theory for Two-Photon Processes.- Behavior of a Ring Laser with Injected Signal near Threshold.- Optical Manifestations of Berry's Topological Phase: Classical and Quantum Aspects.- Theory and Photon Statistics of a Free Electron Laser.- Investigation of ? Phase Jumps in a Ring Laser.- Phase Fluctuation and Damping in Two-Level Optical Resonance.- Relaxation Problems and Lifetimes in Nonlinear Optical Systems.- Optical Systems Driven by Inputs with Reduced Intensity Fluctuations: A Possible Master Equation Approach.- QED of a Two-Level Atom and Photodetection.- Competion between Counter-Propagating Waves in Laser Dynamics.- Nonlinear Dynamics of a Laser Containing A Modulated Saturable Absorber.- Transition from Classical "Maxwell-Boltzmann" to Quantum, "Bose-Einstein" Partition Statistics by Stochastic Splitting of Degenerate Light.- Strong Photon Localization in Microcavity Stimulated Emission.- Optical Experiments Illustrating the Significance of the Bell Inequalities.- High Intensity Effects in Raman Scattering.- Fluctuation Interferometer as High Angular-Resolution Sensor of Laser Illumination.- Self-Observation and Self-Referral in Lasers: An Analysis of the Transition from Quantum to Classical Behavior.- Mode-Locked Superfluorescence.- The Wigner Function of Two-Mode Squeezed States; Free and Dissipative Evolution.- Coherent Scattering of Light in an Aharonov-Bohm Geometry.- Bloch Electrons in Coherent Light: A New Type of Renormalization.- Coherent Population Trapping and Its Effects on Light-Induced Drift.- Stochastic Resonance in Bistable Systems.- Spontaneous and Induced Emission of Soft Bosons: Exact Non-Markovian Solutions.- Coherence and Interference in Photoionization of a Rydberg Atom.- Photon Antibunching in Spontaneous Emission from Two Nonidentical Atoms.- Excitation into a Quasicontinuum by a Fluctuating Laser Field.- Stimulated Photon Echo Induced by Broad-Bandwidth Pulses.- Scatter