Title Optical Precursors : From Classical Waves to Single Photons Author(s) Chen, Jiefei;Jeong, Heejeong;Loy, Michael MT;Du, Shengwang Publication Singapore, Springer Singapore, 2013. Description VI, 79 p. 39 illus., 31 illus. in color : online resource Abstract Note Ever since Einstein???s special relativity in 1905, the principle of invariant light speed in vacuum has been attracting attention from a wide range of disciplines. How to interpret the principle of light speed? Is light referred to continuous light, or light pulse with definite boundaries? Recent discovery of superluminal medium triggered vigorous discussion within the Physics community. Can communication via such ???superluminal channel??? break the speed limit and thus violate causality principle? Or, will a single photon, which is not governed by classical laws of Physics, tend to break the speed limit? To solve these problems, in this Brief we bring in optical precursor, the theoretical works for which started as early as 1914. This is a typical optical phenomenon combining wave propagation theory and light-wave interaction. Both theory and experimental works are covered in this Brief. The study of precursor verifies that the effective information carried by light pulses can never exceed the speed of light in vacuum- c. Further, through observation from nonclassical single photon source, the precursor rules out the probability of a single photon traveling with the speed, breaking the classical limit ISBN,Price 9789814451949 Keyword(s) 1. ATOMS 2. Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction 3. CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS 4. EBOOK 5. EBOOK - SPRINGER 6. ELECTRODYNAMICS 7. LASERS 8. OPTICS 9. Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices 10. PHOTONICS 11. PHYSICS 12. QUANTUM OPTICS Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I08470     On Shelf