Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Dedication V
3. Contents VII
4. Preface XVII
5. Acknowledgments
6. 1 Introduction 1
7. Part I Background material
8. 2 Classical optics 21
9. 3 Quantum optics 86
10. Part II Functional phase space formalism
11. 4 Combining all degrees of freedom 157
12. 5 Wigner functional theory 209
13. 6 Wigner functionals of states and operators 232
14. 7 Measurements 325
15. Part III Parametric down-conversion
16. 8 Modelling parametric down-conversion 419
17. 9 Applications in parametric down-conversion 481
18. Part IV Epilogue
19. 10 Summary and outlook 541
20. A Generating functions 551
21. B Dispersive birefringence 557
22. C Functional integration 561
23. D Inverses and determinants 569
24. Index 577