Overview
The purpose of this book is to provide a physical understanding of photons and their properties and applications. Special emphasis is given in the text to photon pairs produced in spontaneous parametric, down-conversion, which exhibit intrinsically quantum mechanical correlations, known as entanglement, and which extend over manifestly macroscopic distances. Such photon pairs are well suited to the physical realization of Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky type experiments, and also make possible such exciting techniques as quantum cryptography and teleportation.
- | Author: Harry Paul
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: May 20, 2004
- | Number of Pages: 254 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0521835631
- | ISBN-13: 9780521835633
