Table of Contents

Oscillator Model; Atoms in a Classical Light Field; Periodic Lattice of Atoms; Mesoscopic Semiconductor Structures; Free Carrier Transitions; Ideal Quantum Gases; Interacting Electron Gas; Plasmons and Plasma Screening; Retarded Green's Function for Electrons; Excitons; Polaritons; Semiconductor Bloch Equations; Excitonic Optical Stark Effect; Wave-Mixing Spectroscopy; Optical Properties of a Quasi-Equilibrium Electron-Hole Plasma; Optical Bistability; Semiconductor Laser; Electroabsorption; Magneto-Optics; Quantum Dots; Quantum Optical Effects.