Includes bibliographical references (p. [360]-368) and index.
I. Introduction and background. Classical optics ; Quantum mechanics ; Radiative transitions in atoms. -- II. Photons. Photon statistics ; Photon antibunching ; Coherent states and squeezed light ; Photon number states. -- III. Atom-photon interactions. Resonant light-atom interactions ; Atoms in cavities ; Cold atoms. -- IV. Quantum information processing. Quantum cryptography ; Quantum computing ; Entangled states and quantum teleportation. -- Appendices. Poisson statistics ; Parametric amplification ; The density of states ; Low-dimensional semiconductor structures ; Nuclear magnetic resonance ; Bose-Einstein condensation.