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1. Introduction -- 2. Maxwell's equations, photons and the density of states -- 3. Interaction of light with matter -- 4. Ensemble of uncoupled oscillators -- 5. The concept of polaritons -- 6. Kramers-Kronig relations -- 7. Crystals, lattices, lattice vibrations and phonons -- 8. Electrons in a periodic crystal -- 9. Excitons, biexcitons and trions -- 10. Plasmons, magnons and some further elementary excitations -- 11. Optical properties of phonons -- 12. Optical properties of plasmons, plasmon-phonon mixed states and of magnons -- 13. Optical properties of intrinsic excitons in bulk semiconductors -- 14. Optical properties of bound and localized excitons and of defect states -- 15. Optical properties of excitons in structures of reduced dimensionality -- 16. Excitons under the influence of external fields -- 17. From cavity polaritons to photonic crystals -- 18. Review of the linear optical properties -- 19. High excitation effects and nonlinear optics -- 20. The intermediate density regime -- 21. The electron-hole plasma -- 22. Stimulated emission and laser processes -- 23. Time resolved spectroscopy -- 24. Optical bistability, optical computing, spintronics and quantum computing -- 25. Experimental methods -- 26. Group theory in semiconductor optics -- 27. Semiconductor Bloch equations.