Book Description:
Atomic, molecular, and optical physics is the study of matter-matter and light-matter interactions on the scale of single atoms or structures containing a few atoms. The three areas are grouped together because of their interrelationships, the similarity of methods used, and the commonality of the energy scales that are relevant. All three areas include both classical and quantum treatments. This new book presents the latest research from around the world.

Table of Contents:
Preface

1. Pulse Structuring in Laser-Light Dynamics: From Weak to Strong Sideband Analyses (I - The Integro-Differential "Maxwell-Bloch" System)
(Belkacem Meziane, Univ. d' Artois, UCCS Artois, Lens cedex, France) (pp. 1-59)

2. Pulse Structuring in Laser-Light Dynamics: From Weak to Strong Sideband Analyses (II - The Lorenz-Haken Model)
(Belkacem Meziane, Univ. d' Artois, UCCS Artois, Lens cedex, France)(pp. 61-107)

3. Rydberg Atoms, Molecules, Ionization, Radiation Trapping and Surface Physics in Laser Excited Dense Vapours of In and Ga Confined in Quartz Cells
(P. Bicchi, S. Barsanti, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Siena, Siena, Italy) (pp. 109-146)

4. Excitation of Atoms and Ions by Electron Impact
(S.S. Tayal, Dept. of Physics, Clark Atlanta Univ., Atlanta, GA) (pp. 147-203)

5. Polarization Dependent Effects in Optical Waveguides Containing Bragg Grating Structures
(Ping Lu, Communications Research Centre Canada, Ottawa, Liang Chen, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Xiaoli Dai, Communications Research Centre Canada, Ottawa, Canada, Stephen J. Mihailov, Communications Research Centre Canada, Ottawa, Xiaoyi Bao, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada) (pp. 205-234)

6. Fiber Bragg Gratings and their Applications as Temperature and Humidity Sensors
(Qiying Chen, Ping Lu, Dept. of Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, Newfoundland, Canada) (pp. 235-260)

7. Time-Variant Signal Encryption by Dual Random Phase Encoding Setups Applied to Fiber Optic Links
(Christian Cuadrado-Laborde, Centro de Investigaciones Opticas (CONICET-CIC), Buenos Aires, Argentina)(pp. 261-311)

8. Magnetism in Pure and Doped Manganese Clusters
(Mukul Kabir, Abhijit Mookerjee, D.G. Kanhere, S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, India, Dept. of Physics and Centre for Modeling and Simulation, Univ. of Pune, Pune, India) (pp. 313-343)

9. Porous Silica for Solid-State Optical Devices
(Carlo M. Carbonaro, Francesca Clemente, Stefania Grandi, and Alberto Anedda, Dept. of Physics, University of Cagliari, Monserrato (Ca), Italy et al. (pp. 345-385)

10. Pump to Signal Relative Intensity Noise Transfer in Optical Amplifiers and Lasers
(Junhe Zhou, The State Key Laboratory on Fiber-Optic Local Area Communication Networks and Advanced Optical Communication Systems, Shanghai Jian Tong Univ., Shanghai, P.R. China) (pp. 387-426)

11. Quantum Information Processing by Cavity QED under Dissipation
(M. Feng, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China) (pp. 427-461)

12. Influence of Electron Bound Dynamics on High Harmonic Generation (High Harmonic Generation from Molecular Systems in Excited Electronic States)
(M. Kitzler, Photonics Institute, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria, J. Zanghellini, Institute of Chemistry, Univ. of Graz, Austria) (pp. 463-489)

13. Universal Dynamical Decoherence Control of Multi-Partite Systems
(Goren Gordon, Dept. of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel) (pp. 491-522)

Index