Overview

J nos A. Bergou ^a,b

Berthold-Georg Englert ^a,c,d

Melvin Lax ^e

Marlan O. Scully ^a,c

Herbert Walther ^c,f

M. Suhail Zubairy ^a,g

^a Institute for Quantum Studies and Department of Physics
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas

^b Department of Physics and Astronomy
Hunter College of the City University of New York
New York, New York

^c Max-Planck-Institut f r Quantenoptik
Garching bei M nchen, Germany

^d Abteilung Quantenphysik der Universit t Ulm
Ulm, Germany

^e Department of Physics
City College of the City University of New York
New York, New York

^f Sektion Physik der Universit t M nchen
Garching bei M nchen, Germany

^g Department of Electronics
Quaid-i-Azam University
Islamabad, Pakistan

26.1 GLOSSARY

Section 26.3

		annihilation, creation operator for photons in the k-th mode
A		Einstein coefficient for spontaneous emission
A k( r)		kth electric mode function at position r
B		Einstein coefficient for absorption and stimulated emission
B( r, t)		magnetic field at position r and time t
B k( r)		kth magnetic mode function at position r
c		speed of light
e k		polarization unit vector of the kth mode
E ?( r, t)		transverse electric field at position r and time t
		Planck s constant
k, k		wave vector, its length
( d k)		three-dimensional volume element in k space
k B		Boltzmann s constant
n k		propagation unit vector of the k