Written for advanced undergraduate and masters level students in physics, this textbook includes a range of topics in applied quantum optics, such as laser cooling, Bose-Einstein condensation and quantum information processing. It contains many illustrations, with an emphasis on the experimental obs...

Written for advanced undergraduate and masters level students in physics, this textbook includes a range of topics in applied quantum optics, such as laser cooling, Bose-Einstein condensation and quantum information processing. It contains many illustrations, with an emphasis on the experimental observations of quantum optical phenomena.