Coherence and Quantum Optics IV: Proceedings of the Fourth Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics held at the University of Rochester, June 8–10, 1977

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Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Recent Developments in Four-Wave Light Mixing and Two-Photon Absorption Spectroscopy (N. Bloembergen)....Pages 1-1 Second-Order Sum- and Difference-Frequency Generation via Quadrupole Transitions in Atomic Vapors (Donald Bethune, Robert W. Smith, Y. R. Shen)....Pages 3-12 Fine Structure of Third Harmonic Generation (M. L. Ter-Mikaelian)....Pages 13-13 Rabi Flopping and Coherent Transients in a Josephson Junction (A. DiRienzo, D. Rogovin, M. Scully)....Pages 15-25 Higher Order Coherent Raman Scattering (S. Chandra, A. Compaan, E. Wiener-Avnear)....Pages 27-38 Memory Function Methods for Quantum Systems in Contact with Reservoirs (A. Zardecki)....Pages 39-48 The Laser — Trailblazer of Synergetics (Hermann Haken)....Pages 49-62 Photon Statistics, Instabilities and Phase Transitions in Dye Lasers (Charles R. Willis)....Pages 63-80 Laser as Catastrophe (R. Gilmore, L. M. Narducci)....Pages 81-91 Dressed-Atom Approach to Resonance Fluorescence (C. Cohen-Tannoudji, S. Reynaud)....Pages 93-94 Resonance Fluorescence under Finite Bandwidth Excitation (L. Mandel, H. J. Kimble)....Pages 95-97 Atomic Fluorescence with Monochromatic Excitation (H. Walther)....Pages 99-99 Two-Level Atoms in an Intense Monochromatic Field: A Review of Recent Experimental Investigations (Shaoul Ezekiel)....Pages 101-101 Quantum Mechanical Resonant Light Scattering (B. R. Mollow)....Pages 103-113 Resonance Fluorescence in 3-Level Systems (C. R. Stroud Jr., H. R. Gray)....Pages 115-116 Thermodynamics of a Non-Equilibrium Quantum System — Resonance Fluorescence (D. F. Walls)....Pages 117-126 The Theory of the Optical Autler-Tonnes Effect in Sodium Including Degeneracy and Detuning (S. Swain, W. A. McClean)....Pages 127-138 Transient Quantum Phenomena in the Optical Region (Richard G. Brewer)....Pages 139-140 Picosecond Dephasing of Coherently Excited Vibrational Levels in Liquid N2/Ar Mixtures (J. D. W. van Voorst, H. M. M. Hesp, J. Langelaar, D. Bebelaar)....Pages 141-141 Strong Departures from Uniform Plane Wave Pulse Propagation as a Result of Coherent Transverse Effects (F. P. Mattar, M. C. Newstein, P. E. Serafim, H. M. Gibbs, B. Bölger, G. Forster et al.)....Pages 143-164 Photon-Echo Zeeman Quantum Beats in Cesium Hyperfine Levels (T. Baer, I. D. Abella)....Pages 165-173 Observation of a Raman Echo (P. Hu, S. Geschwind, T. M. Jedju)....Pages 175-185 Photon Echo Polarization Measurements in SF6 and SiF4 (W. M. Gutman, C. V. Heer)....Pages 187-195 Theory of Electromagnetic Transients in Spatially Dispersive Media and a New Approach to Precursor Theory (J. L. Birman, M. J. Frankel, D. N. Pattanayak)....Pages 197-207 An Integral Equation Approach to the Theory of Optical Resonance (Deva N. Pattanayak)....Pages 209-219 On the Decomposition of the Electromagnetic Field into Its Natural Modes (B. J. Hoenders)....Pages 221-232 The Analytic Nature of Scattered Electromagnetic Fields and the Effect of Coherence on Phase Retrieval (G. Ross, M. A. Fiddy)....Pages 233-240 Information Rate for a Source Relative to an Absolute-Magnitude Criterion (C. Bendjaballah)....Pages 241-247 Cooperative Effects in Optical Bistability and Resonance Fluorescence (R. Bonifacio, L. A. Lugiato)....Pages 249-262 Theory of Far Infrared Superfluorescence (R. K. Bullough, R. Saunders, C. Feuillade)....Pages 263-279 Dynamical Approach to Steady State and Fluctuations in Optically Bistable Systems (G. S. Agarwa, L. M. Narducci, Da Hsuan Feng, R. Gilmore)....Pages 281-292 Analytic Solutions of Non-Markovian Master Equations for Superfluorescence (C. T. Lee)....Pages 293-305 Superradiance and Superfluorescence of a Dicke Point Source (Martin E. Smithers)....Pages 307-315 Light Beating Study of the Transition to Turbulence (H. L. Swinney, P. R. Fenstermacher, J. P. Gollub)....Pages 317-318 Spatial Coherence of Light Scattered by Liquid Crystals (M. Bertolotti, F. Scudieri)....Pages 319-332 A Sensitive Infrared Imaging Upconverter and Spatial Coherence of Atmospheric Propagation (R. W. Boyd, C. H. Townes)....Pages 333-340 Density Dependent Rayleigh Linewidth of Depolarized Doubly Scattered Light (J. G. Gallagher, Dae M. Kim, C. D. Armeniades)....Pages 341-349 The Statistical and Correlation Properties of Light Scattered by a Random Phase Screen (G. Parry, P. N. Pusey, E. Jakeman, J. G. McWhirter)....Pages 351-361 Doppler-Free and Ultra-High Resolution Spectroscopy (T. W. Hänsch, A. L. Schawlow)....Pages 363-364 Transient Two-Photon Coherent Effects (M. M. T. Loy)....Pages 365-366 Separated Optical Fields in Double Quantum Transitions (M. M. Salour)....Pages 367-381 Adiabatic Following in Two-Photon Transition (Munir H. Nayfeh, Ali H. Nayfeh)....Pages 383-393 Subpicosecond Pulse Generation in Resonant Two-Photon Propagation (H. P. Yuen, F. Y. F. Chu)....Pages 395-401 Exact Solution and Analytic Properties of Coherent Two-Photon Near-Resonant Pulse Propagation under Adiabatic Following Conditions (F. H. M. Faisal)....Pages 403-414 On the Radiation Efficiency of Quasi-Homogeneous Sources of Different Degrees of Spatial Coherence (E. Wolf, W. H. Carter)....Pages 415-430 Radiometric and Correlation Properties of Bounded Planar Sources (H. P. Baltes, B. Steinle, G. Antes)....Pages 431-441 Determination of Coherence Length from Directionality (H. A. Ferwerda, M. G. van Heel)....Pages 443-448 On the Existence of a Radiance Function for a Partially Coherent Planar Source (Ari T. Friberg)....Pages 449-455 Radiative Energy Transfer in Scalar Wave Fields (E. Wolf, M. S. Zubairy)....Pages 457-458 Radiative Energy Transfer in the Presence of Random Source Distributions (M. S. Zubairy)....Pages 459-467 The Quantum Mechanical Foundations of Semiclassical Radiation Theories (I. R. Senitzky)....Pages 469-480 The ħ → 0 Limit of QED (G. C. Dente)....Pages 481-485 The Lamb Shift in Atomic Helium and the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Electron from a New Theory of Elementary Matter (Mendel Sachs)....Pages 487-494 Electrodynamics Today (E. T. Jaynes)....Pages 495-509 Antibunching in Light Harmonics Generation from Field Quantisation (S. Kielich, M. Kozierowski, R. Tanaś)....Pages 511-515 Study of Photon Correlation in the 100-Nanosecond Range with Photoelectron Time-of-Arrival Technique (Shen Jen, Benjamin Chu)....Pages 517-518 Measurement of the Second Order Correlation Tensor (G. Bose, C. L. Mehta)....Pages 519-525 Two-Photon Time Correlations in Diverging Spatially Coherent Light (Donald Scarl, Sigrid McAfee)....Pages 527-532 About the Atomic Correlation Functions in Higher Order Coherence (Andrei N. Weiszmann)....Pages 533-537 Superradiance: Theories Versus Experiments (S. Haroche)....Pages 539-542 Experiments on Superfluorescence in Cesium (Q. H. F. Vrehen, H. M. J. Hikspoors, H. M. Gibbs)....Pages 543-553 Far-Infrared Superradiance in Methyl Fluoride (A. T. Rosenberger, S. J. Petuchowski, T. A. DeTemple)....Pages 555-565 Level-Degeneracy Effects in Superradiance Theory (Anne Crubellier, Marie-Gabrielle Schweighofer)....Pages 567-582 Characteristics of Spontaneous Emissions Amplified by a High-Gain Laser Amplifier (H. Gamo, H. Osada)....Pages 583-597 What Does Spontaneous Emission Look Like? (L. Allen, S. P. Kravis, J. S. Plaskett)....Pages 599-611 Pulse Propagation in a High-Gain Laser Amplifier: Pulse Waveform and Saturation (H. Gamo, N. Takahashi, H. Osada, H. Sato)....Pages 613-622 Frequency Selective Intensity Statistics of Amplified Spontaneous Emission (N. B. Abraham, S. R. Smith)....Pages 623-633 Non-Markovian Effects in Spontaneous Emission: Deviations from the Exponential Decay ‘Law’ (Peter L. Knight)....Pages 635-645 Theory of a Free Electron Laser (M. O. Scully, F. A. Hopf, P. Meystre)....Pages 647-648 A Description of Laser Stability near Threshold by Liapounov’s Second Method (Adi R. Bulsara, William C. Schieve)....Pages 649-666 Thermodynamic Analyses of Laser Instability and Superradiance (H. Hasegawa, S. Sawada, M. Mabuchi)....Pages 667-681 Operator Algebraic Methods for Laser Cavity Modes (David Stoler)....Pages 683-693 The Multiphoton Coherent Hanle Effect (A. Flusberg, T. Mossberg, S. R. Hartmann)....Pages 695-705 Application of Coherent Interactions to Isotope Separation (J.-C. Diels)....Pages 707-717 Quantum Statistics of Homodyne and Heterodyne Detection (Horace P. Yuen, Jeffrey H. Shapiro)....Pages 719-727 General Theory for Collisional Effects in Quantum Beat Spectroscopy (R. M. Herman, K. S. Meyer)....Pages 729-736 Gas-Kinetic Cooling Processes by Coherent Radiation (M. Garbuny)....Pages 737-746 On the Linear Equations of Soliton Theory (G. L. Lamb Jr.)....Pages 747-757 Coherent Optical Pulse Propagation in Thick Resonant Absorbers (H. M. Gibbs, B. Bölger)....Pages 759-765 Optical Solitons and Their Spin Wave Analogues in 3He (R. K. Bullough, P. J. Caudrey)....Pages 767-780 How Many Physically Significant Solutions are There to the Self-Induced Transparency Equations? (R. C. Harney)....Pages 781-788 A Solution of the Bloch-Maxwell’s Equations without the Use of the “Factorization Assumption” (Ljubomir Matulic)....Pages 789-797 A Link Between Quantum- and Semi-Classical Theories for Super-Radiance via an Unrestricted Markovian Model (E. Ressayre, A. Tallet)....Pages 799-810 Quantum Disorder in Macroscopic Systems of Interacting Atoms and Radiation Fields (G. Compagno, F. Persico)....Pages 811-823 Collective Decay Modes of Many Nonoverlapping Two-Level Atoms — An Outline (V. Ernst)....Pages 825-837 Influence of Omitting the P2 Term in the Multipole Photon-Matter Hamiltonian on the Stability and Propagation (M. Yamanoi, M. Takatsuji)....Pages 839-850 The Critical Properties of Two-Level Models of the Fundamental Hamiltonians (K. Wódkiewicz, J. H. Eberly)....Pages 851-857 Contributions of The A2 and Counter-Rotating Terms to the Phase Transition in the Dicke Hamiltonian (R. Gilmore, C. M. Bowden)....Pages 859-862 Time-Dependent Projection-Operator Techniques in Quantum Optics (R. H. Picard, C. R. Willis)....Pages 863-874 Phase States in Quantum Optics (F. Rocca)....Pages 875-884 Quantum Point Process Model for Photodetection (M. D. Srinivas)....Pages 885-897 Comparison of d•E Versus p•A Interactions for a Charged Harmonic Oscillator (Kazimierz Rzążewski)....Pages 899-907 Ordering of an Exponentiated Multimode Quadratic Operator (G. P. Agrawal, C. L. Mehta)....Pages 909-921 Swept-Gain Superradiance in CO2-Pumped CH3F (J. J. Ehrlich, C. M. Bowden, D. W. Howgate, S. H. Lehnigk, A. T. Rosenberger, T. A. DeTemple)....Pages 923-937 Superfluorescence: Maxwell-Bloch Equations, Mean-Field Approach and CS Experiment (R. Bonifacio, M. Gronchi, L. A. Lugiato, A. M. Ricca)....Pages 939-951 Theory of Natural Line Shape (Luiz Davidovich, H. M. Nussenzveig)....Pages 953-974 Quadratic Nonlinearities and Turbulence in a Laser System (F. T. Arecchi, A. M. Ricca)....Pages 975-987 On Solutions Describing Self-Induced Transparency of Ultra-Short Pulses (A. Kujawski, J. H. Eberly)....Pages 989-997 Back Matter ....Pages 999-1011