Introduction to fluorescence -- Instrumentation for fluorescence spectroscopy -- Fluorophores -- Time-domain lifetime measurements -- Frequency-domain lifetime measurements -- Solvent and environmental effects -- Dynamics of solvent and spectral relaxation -- Quenching of fluorescence -- Mechanisms and dynamics of fluorescence quenching -- Fluorescence anisotropy -- Time-dependent anisotropy decays -- Advanced anisotropy concepts -- Energy transfer -- Time-resolved energy transfer and conformational distributions of biopolymers -- Energy transfer to multiple acceptors in one, two, or three dimensions -- Protein fluorescence -- Time-resolved protein fluorescence -- Multiphoton excitation and microscopy -- Fluorescence sensing -- Novel fluorophores -- DNA technology -- Fluorescence-lifetime imaging microscopy -- Single-molecule detection -- Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy -- Radiative decay engineering : metal-enhanced fluorescence -- Radiative decay engineering : surface plasmon-coupled emission -- Appendix I. Corrected emission spectra -- Appendix II. Fluorescent lifetime standards -- Appendix III. Additional reading -- Answers to problems.