Tutorials and Reviews

 

Tutorials & Reviews

Tutorial Papers

The following are published tutorial or review articles presented by Michael Raymer.

  • “Uncertainty principle for joint measurement of noncommuting variables,” M. G. Raymer, Am. J. Phys. 62, 986 (1994).   PDF

  • "Measuring the quantum mechanical wave function,” M. G. Raymer, Contemp. Physics 38, 343 (1997). PDF
  • “Toward Quantum-Information Processing with Photons,” I. Walmsley and M. Raymer Science, Mar. 18, 307, 1733, (2005).    PDF
  • "Experimental Quantum State Tomography of Optical Fields and Ultrafast Statistical Sampling"    PDF
  • "The Maxwell Wave Function of the Photon . . .(SPIE)".   PDF

Reviews

  • "Quantum Statistics in Nonlinear Optics," J. Mostowski and M. G. Raymer, Chapter 5 in Contemporary Nonlinear Optics, edited by G. P. Agrawal and R. W. Boyd (Academic, Boston, 1992, pg. 187-234).  https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-145135-6.50010-X         PDF

  • "Continuous-variable optical quantum-state tomography," A.I. Lvovsky and M.G. Raymer, Reviews of Modern Physics, 81, 299 (2009).    PDF

  • "The Quantum Coherence Properties of Stimulated Raman Scattering," M. G. Raymer and I. A. Walmsley, Progress in Optics, Volume 28 pg.181-270 (1990).     PDF

 

The following pdf documents contain slides of tutorial-level talks presented by Michael Raymer.

1. "Whence Quantum Mechanics?"

2a. "Quantum Optical Measurement" part 1  

2b. "Quantum Optical Measurement" part 2

2c. "Quantum Optical Measurement" part 3  

3. "The Maxwell Wave Function of the Photon" 

4. "A Nine Point Argument on 'What is a Photon"  

5. "One- and Two-Photon Wave Mechanics" (LOQUIP 2006)