This third edition, like its two predecessors, provides a detailed account of the basic theory needed to understand the properties of light and its interactions

This third edition, like its two predecessors, provides a detailed account of the basic theory needed to understand the properties of light and its interactions

This compact but exhaustive textbook, now in its significantly revised and expanded second edition, provides an essential introduction to the field quantization

The book gives an introduction to the field quantization (second quantization) of light and matter with applications to atomic physics. The first chapter briefl