QC 351 A7 no. 31 v2 / The quantum theory of noise plays a very important role in the
laser and optical parametric oscillator. In these lectures we shall
consider in some detail a damped harmonic oscillator as well as a
rotating-wave van der Pol oscillator which describes a laser.
We begin with a brief reivew of the quantization of the radiation
field and the coherent state representation.1,2 This representation
is especially appropriate for oscillators far above threshold since it
shows the very close correspondence between the quantum and classical
theory.
The theory of damping will be presented from both the Langevin and
reduced density operator viewpoints. When the system is a mode of the
radiation field, the density operator in the coherent state representation is a Fokker-Planck type equation.
We shall present an elementary discussion of the optical parametric
oscillator.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/621626 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Jacobs, Stephen F., Mandelbaum, Jewel B. |
| Publisher | Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Technical Report |
| Rights | Copyright © Arizona Board of Regents |
| Relation | Optical Sciences Technical Report 31 v2 |
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