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Introduction
to Quantum Optics
From the Semi-classical Approach to
Quantized Light
GILBERT GRYNBERG
ALAIN ASPECT
CNRS
CLAUDE FABRE
Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI
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Contents
Foreword xxiii
Preface xxv
Acknowledgements xxviii
Part I Semi-classical description of matter–light interaction 1
1 The evolution of interacting quantum systems 3
Review of some elementary results of quantum mechanics 4
Transition between discrete levels induced by a time-dependent perturbation 5
Case of a discrete level coupled to a continuum: Fermi’s go