Table of Contents

Preface; Pulse Structuring in Laser-Light Dynamics: From Weak to Strong Sideband Analyses I - The Integro-Differential "Maxwell-Bloch" System; Pulse Structuring in Laser-Light Dynamics: From Weak to Strong Sideband Analyses II - The Lorenz-Haken Model); Rydberg Atoms, Molecules, Ionization, Radiation Trapping and Surface Physics in Laser Excited Dense Vapours of In and Ga Confined in Quartz Cells; Excitation of Atoms and Ions by Electron Impact; Polarization Dependent Effects in Optical Waveguides Containing Bragg Grating Structures; Fiber Bragg Gratings and their Applications as Temperature and Humidity Sensors; Time-Variant Signal Encryption by Dual Random Phase Encoding Setups Applied to Fiber Optic Links; Magnetism in Pure and Doped Manganese Clusters; Pump to Signal Relative Intensity Noise Transfer in Optical Amplifiers and Lasers; Quantum Information Processing by Cavity QED under Dissipation; Influence of Electron Bound Dynamics on High Harmonic Generation; High Harmonic Generation from Molecular Systems in Excited Electronic States; Universal Dynamical Decoherence Control of Multi-Partite Systems; Index.