Classical Electromagnetic Fields -- Maxwell's Equations in a Vacuum -- Maxwell's Equations in a Medium -- Linear Dipole Oscillator -- Coherence -- Free-Electron Lasers -- Classical Nonlinear Optics -- Nonlinear Dipole Oscillator -- Coupled-Mode Equations -- Cubic Nonlinearity -- Four-Wave Mixing with Degenerate Pump Frequencies -- Nonlinear Susceptibilities -- Quantum Mechanical Background -- Review of Quantum Mechanics -- Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory -- Atom-Field Interaction for Two-Level Atoms -- Simple Harmonic Oscillator -- Mixtures and the Density Operator -- Level Damping -- The Density Matrix -- Vector Model of Density Matrix -- CW Field Interactions -- Polarization of Two-Level Medium -- Inhomogeneously Broadened Media -- Counterpropagating Wave Interactions -- Two-Photon Two-Level Model -- Polarization of Semiconductor Gain Media -- Mechanical Effects of Light -- Atom-Field Interaction -- Doppler Cooling -- The Near-Resonant Kapitza-Dirac Effect -- Atom Interferometry -- Introduction to Laser Theory -- The Laser Self-Consistency Equations -- Steady-State Amplitude and Frequency -- Standing-Wave, Doppler-Broadened Lasers -- Two-Mode Operation and the Ring Laser -- Mode Locking -- Single-Mode Semiconductor Laser Theory -- Transverse Variations and Gaussian Beams -- Optical Bistability -- Simple Theory of Dispersive Optical Bistability -- Absorptive Optical Bistability -- Ikeda Instability -- Saturation Spectroscopy -- Probe Wave Absorption Coefficient -- Coherent Dips and the Dynamic Stark Effect -- Inhomogeneously Broadened Media -- Three-Level Saturation Spectroscopy --

Dark States and Electromagnetically Induced Transparency -- Three and Four Wave Mixing -- Phase Conjugation in Two-Level Media -- Two-Level Coupled Mode Coefficients -- Modulation Spectroscopy -- Nondegenerate Phase Conjugation by Four-Wave Mixing -- Time-Varying Phenomena in Cavities -- Relaxation Oscillations in Lasers -- Stability of Single-Mode Laser Operation -- Multimode Mode Locking -- Single-Mode Laser and the Lorenz Model -- Coherent Transients -- Optical Nutation -- Free Induction Decay -- Photon Echo -- Ramsey Fringes -- Pulse Propagation and Area Theorem -- Self-Induced Transparency -- Slow Light -- Field Quantization -- Single-Mode Field Quantization -- Multimode Field Quantization -- Single-Mode Field in Thermal Equilibrium -- Coherent States -- Coherence of Quantum Fields -- Quasi-Probability Distributions -- Schrodinger Field Quantization -- The Gross-Pitaevskii Equation -- Interaction Between Atoms and Quantized Fields -- Dressed States -- Jaynes-Cummings Model -- Spontaneous Emission in Free Space -- Quantum Beats -- System-Reservoir Interactions -- Master Equation -- Fokker-Planck Equation -- Langevin Equations -- Monte-Carlo Wave Functions -- Quantum Regression Theorem and Noise Spectra -- Resonance Fluorescence -- Phenomenology -- Langevin Equations of Motion -- Scattered Intensity and Spectrum -- Connection with Probe Absorption -- Photon Antibunching -- Off-Resonant Excitation -- Squeezed States of Light -- Squeezing the Coherent State -- Two-Sidemode Master Equation -- Two-Mode Squeezing --

Squeezed Vacuum -- Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics -- Generalized Master Equation for the Atom-Cavity System -- Weak Coupling Regime -- Strong Coupling Regime -- Velocity-Dependent Spontaneous Emission -- Input-Output Formalism -- Quantum Theory of a Laser -- The Micromaser -- Single Mode Laser Master Equation -- Laser Photon Statistics and Linewidth -- Quantized Sidemode Buildup -- Entanglement, Bell Inequalities and Quantum Information -- Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox and Bell Inequalities -- Bipartite Entanglement -- The Quantum Beam Splitter -- Quantum Teleportation -- Quantum Cryptography -- Toward Quantum Computing.