Quantum Optics V: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium Rotorua, New Zealand, February 13-17, 1989 (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

I Quantum Noise Reduction and Squeezing.- Photon Noise Reduction in Lasers by Suppression of Pump Fluctuations.- Squeezing, Bistability and Instability in the Optical Parametric Oscillator.- Non-linear Beam Splitters in the Production of Squeezed Coherent Light.- Photon Statistics of Broadband Squeezed Vacuum.- Nearly Transparent Optical Networks.- Input-Output Fields and Their Squeezing for Arbitrary Linear Response.- Time Dependent Quantum Correlations and Squeezing.- II Quantum Measurement Problems in Optics.- Backaction Evasion Experiments.- Squeezing and Quantum Nondemolition Measurement Using Self-Induced Transparency Solitons.- The Effect of Measurement on Quantum Optical Systems.- Input-Output Formulations of Photodetection.- Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Correlations in Nondegenerate Parametric Amplification.- Phase in Quantum Electrodynamics.- A Bifurcation in Squeezed State Physics: But How? or Area-of-Overlap in Phase Space as a Guide to the Phase Distribution and the Action-Angle Wigner Function of a Squeezed State.- III Atomic Spectroscopy and Cavity QED.- Toward the Theoretical Limit of High Resolution in Atomic Spectroscopy.- Phase Transitions of Stored Laser-Cooled Ions: A First Step Towards Crystallization in Storage Rings.- Modulation Spectroscopy and Cavity QED.- "Taming" Sodium.- IV Laser Physics.- Single Photon Transition Correlated Emission Schemes and Their Dependence on Pump Fluctuations.- Stochastic Position Noise, or Why a Laser Beam Cannot Go Straight.- The Generation of Mode-Locked Pi Pulses.- Spontaneous and Induced Solitons in Stimulated Raman Scattering.- Many-Body Theory of the Electron-Hole Plasma in Bulk and Quantum-Well Semiconductor Lasers.- Theory of Semiconductor Lasers.- Poster Papers.- Index of Contributors.