Classical and Quantum Optics and Their Influences on Science and Society
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https://doi.org/10.21664/2238-8869.2019v8i2.p104-131Keywords:
Classical and Quantum Optics, Maxwell's Equations, Nonlinear Effects, Laser Light ApplicationsAbstract
In this work we present a brief history of Optics, begun several centuries BC in its evolution characterized as Classical Optics; later on, this theory became also characterized as Quantum Optics. The first of these two theories was completed in the great work of J. C. Maxwell while the second actually started in 1977 with the discovery of the first quantum effect in Optics, having in Roy Glauber one of its greatest representatives. Here, a quick walk along these two theories was made, including the various technological applications of both in science and society
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Glauber RJ 1963. Coherent and incoherent states of the radiation field. Physical Review 131(6):2766-2788. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.131.2766.
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Kimble HJ, Dagenais M, Mandel L 1977. Photon antibunching in resonance fluorescence. Physical Review Letters 39(11):691–695. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.39.691.
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Roy B 1998. Nonclassical properties of the real and imaginary nonlinear Schrödinger cat states. Physics Letters A 249(1–2):25–29. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0375-9601(98)00642-2.
Schrödinger E 1926. Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem. Annalen der Physik 384(6):489–527. https://doi.org/10.1002/andp.19263840602.
Slusher RE, Hollberg LW, Yurke B, Mertz JC, Valley JF 1986. Observation of squeezed states generated by four-wave mixing in an optical cavity. Physical Review Letters 55(22):2409–2414. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.55.2409.
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FERREIRA, Cristino Jose dos Santos; VAZ, Gabriela Rodrigues; VALVERDE, Clodoaldo; BASEIA, Basílio. Classical and Quantum Optics and Their Influences on Science and Society. Fronteiras - Journal of Social, Technological and Environmental Science, [S. l.], v. 8, n. 2, p. 104–131, 2019. DOI: 10.21664/2238-8869.2019v8i2.p104-131. Disponível em: https://revistas.unievangelica.edu.br/index.php/fronteiras/article/view/3153. Acesso em: 19 may. 2024.
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