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Front Matter

Quickstart

Part I. Preliminaries: From Undergraduate Physics to Quantum Optics

A Guided Tour: What Does a Telescope Actually Record, and Where Is This Book Taking You?
Waves, Phase, and Complex Amplitude: The Minimal Language of Interference
Fourier, Bandwidth, and Coherence Time
Probability, the Poisson Process, and Shot Noise
Quantum Mechanics and the Harmonic Oscillator: Ladder Operators
Quantizing Light: From Modes to Photons

Part II. Quantum States of Light and Photon Statistics

Part III. Coherence, Interference, and Imaging

Temporal Coherence and First-Order (Amplitude) Interferometry
Spatial Coherence, van Cittert–Zernike, and Intensity Interferometry
From Visibility to Imaging: Angular Diameters, Multiple Baselines, and uv Coverage
Quantum Estimation, the Rayleigh Limit, and SPADE Sub-Rayleigh Resolution

Part IV. Instruments, Event Tables, and Observation Design

Part V. Astrophysical Objects as Quantum Light Sources

Part VI. Propagation, Cosmology, and New Physics

Part VII. Frontiers, Case Studies, and Practice

Appendices

Index

By Yu Wang