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Saleh, B. E. A., and M. C. Teich. Fundamentals of Photonics. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, 1991. ISBN: 0471839655.

Hecht, E., and A. Zajac. Optics. 3rd ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997. ISBN: 0201838877.

Griffiths, D. Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995. ISBN: 0131118927.

Cohen-Tannoudji, C., B. Diu, and F. Laloe. Quantum Mechanics I. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, 1992. ISBN: 0471569526.

Yariv, A. Optical Electronics in Modern Communications. 5th ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0195106261.

Svelto, O. Principles of Lasers. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 2004. ISBN: 0306457482.

Haus, H. A. Waves and Fields in Optoelectronics. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1983. ISBN: 0139460535.

Allen, L., and J. H. Eberly. Optical Resonance and Two-Level Atoms. New ed. New York, NY: Dover, 1987. ISBN: 0486655334.

Liu, Jia-Ming. Photonic Devices. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0521551951.

Meystre, P., and M. Sargent, III. Elements of Quantum Optics. 3rd ed. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 1986. ISBN: 354064220X.