Coherence and Quantum Optics VII, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996 Proceedings of the Seventh Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics, held at the University of Rochester, June 7–10, 1995

The Seventh Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics was held on the campus of the University of Rochester during the four-day period June 7 - 10, 1996. More than 280 scientists from 33 countries participated. This book contains the Proceedings of the meeting. This Conference differed from the previous six in the series in having only a limited number of oral presentations, in order to avoid too many parallel sessions. Another new feature was the introduction of tutorial lectures. Most contributed papers were presented in poster sessions. The Conference was sponsored by the American Physical Society, by the Optical Society of America, by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and by the University of Rochester. We wish to express our appreciation to these organizations for their support and we especially extend our thanks to the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics for providing financial assistance to a number of speakers from Third World countries, to enable them to take part in the meeting.

Laser Cooling: Physical Mechanisms and Ultimate Limits (C. CohenTannoudji). Controlling Chaotic Lasers (R. Roy). Quantum Aspects of Nonlinear Optical Patterns (L.A. Lugiato et al.). Chaos in Semiconductor Lasers with Optical Injection (A. Gavrielides). Quantum Optics in Periodic Dielectric Structures (G. Kurizki). Synthesis of Entangled Atomic States and Quantum Computation (T. Pellizzari et al.). Nonlinear Optical Properties of Quasione Dimensional Magnetoexcitons (D.S. Chemla). Role of Standingwave Mode Structure in Microlaser Emission (K. An et al.). Pumpcoupled Micromasers (P. Bogár). Micromaser Dynamics with Collective Effects Using the Monte Carlo Wavefunction Method (T.B.L. Kist et al.). Exact Trapping State Dynamics for the 85Rb Atom Micromaser at Very High Q and/orVery Low T (R.K. Bullough et al.). Micromaser with Stationary NonPoissonian Pumping (U. Herzong). Jaynes-Cummings Model with Fluctuating Atomfield Coefficient (A. Joshi, S.V. Lawande).Flying Qubits in Cavity QED (W. Lange et al.). Reduction of Quantum Phase Fluctuations in a Laser via Squeezed Vacuum Reservoir (M.S. Zubairy et al.). Generalized Dispersion Relationsand Optical Bistability in Squeezed Vacua (R.K. Bullough et al.). Squeezing Enhancement in Cascaded Lasers (M.T. Fontenelle, L. Davidovich). Nonclassical Excitation for Atoms in a Squeezed Vacuum (N.Ph. Georgiades et al.). Squeezing with Laser Cooled Atoms (A. Lambrecht et al.). Nearly Ideal Squeezing in DegenerateTwophoton Absorption in Threelevel Atoms (A. Sinatra et al.). Optical Tomography of a Highly Squeezed, Continuouswave Vacuumstate (S. Schiller et al.). Exact Solution of Quantum Optical Models by Algebraic Bethe Ansatz Methods (R.K. Bullough et al.). Conditioned Density Matric Treatment of Fluorescent Atomin Quasiclassical Field (T.C. Burt, J. GeaBanacloche). Input-Output from Optical Cavities: Quasimode Theory (B.J. Dalton et al.). Resonance in NonstationaryCasimir Effect (C.K. Law). Photon Generation in a Cavity with Oscillating Boundary: Analytical Solution (V.V. Dodonov, A.B. Klimov). Quantum Decoherence Measurements through Twoatom Correlations (L. Davidovich et al.). The General Squeezed State and Its Atomic Phase Dependence (L. Roa). 170 additional articles. Index.