Quantum Optics and the Spectroscopy of Solids: Concepts and Advances

Preface. Biography of Prof. A.O. Barut. 1. Aspects of Local-Field Electrodynamics in Condensed Matter; O. Keller. 2. Persistent Current and Persistent Charge in Nanostructures; I.O. Kulik. 3. Quantum Optics and Solid State Spectroscopy; A.S. Shumovsky. 4. Laser-Experiments with Single Atoms in Cavities and Traps; H. Walther. 5. Dressed States in Atoms and in Excitons; G. Compagno, et al. 6. Electron Coherence in Quantum Well Intersubband Transitions; A. Imamogammalu, et al. 7. Interaction of Two-Level Atomic System with a Single-Mode Radiation Field; T. Hakiogammalu. 8. Quantum Estimation Theory and Optical Detection; G.M. l'Ariano. 9. Measuring Quantum States; G.M. l'Ariano. 10. Optical Tomography and Macroscopic Coherence; P. Tombesi. 11. Harmonic Oscillator States in Finite Dimensional Hilbert Space; A. Miranowicz, et al. 12. Optical Spectroscopy of Microcavities; A. Serpengüzel, et al.