| Maxwell??™s Equations, Photons and the Density of States |
| Electromagnetic Radiation in Vacuum |
| Electromagnetic Radiation in Matter; Linear Optics |
| Transverse, Longitudinal and Surface Waves |
| Photons and Some Aspects of Quantum Mechanics and of Dispersion Relations |
| Density of States and Occupation Probabilities |
| Interaction of Light with Matter |
| The Concept of Polaritons |
| Ensemble of Uncoupled Oscillators |
| Equations of Motion and the Dielectric Function |
| Corrections Due to Quantum Mechanics and Local Fields |
| Spectra of the Dielectric Function and of the Complex Index of Refraction |
| The Spectra of Reflection and Transmission |
| Interaction of Close Lying Resonances |
| Electrons in a Periodic Crystal |
| Stimulated Emission and Laser Processes |
| Basic Concepts of Laser Diodes and Present Research Trends |
| Optical Properties of Phonons |
| Review of the Linear Optical Properties |
| Plasmons, Magnons and some Further Elementary Excitations |
| Plasmons, Pair Excitations and Plasmon-Phonon Mixed States |
| Magnons and Magnetic Polarons |
| Optical Properties of Intrinsic Excitons in Bulk Semiconductors |
| Optical Properties of Plasmons, Plasmon-Phonon Mixed States and of Magnons |
| Plasmon-Phonon Mixed States |
| Plasmons in Systems of Reduced Dimensionality |
| Optical Properties of Magnons |
| Optical Bistability, Optical Computing, Spintronics and Quantum Computing |
| Excitons Under the Influence of External Fields |
| From Cavity Polaritons to Photonic Crystals |
| Optical Properties of Excitons in Structures of Reduced Dimensionality |
| Coupled Quantum Wells and Superlattices |
| High Excitation Effects and Nonlinear Optics |
| Introduction and Definition |
| General Scenario for High Excitation Effects |
| Beyond the c(n) Approximations |
| The Intermediate Density Regime |
| Crystals, Lattices, Lattice Vibrations and Phonons |
| Time Resolved Spectroscopy |
| Optical Properties of Bound and Localized Excitons and of Defect States |
| Bound-Exciton and Multi-exciton Complexes |
| Donor-Acceptor Pairs and Related Transitions |
| Internal Transitions and Deep Centers |
| Excitons in Disordered Systems |
| Group Theory in Semiconductor Optics |
| Semiconductor Bloch Equations |
| Excitons, Biexcitons and Trions |
| Wannier and Frenkel Excitons |
| Corrections to the Simple Exciton Model |
| The Influence of Dimensionality |
| Excitons in Disordered Systems |
| Optical Properties of Intrinsic Excitons in Bulk Semiconductors |
| Excitons with strong Oscillator Strength |
| Consequences of Spatial Dispersion |
| Spectra of Reflection, Transmission and Luminescence |
| Spectroscopy in Momentum Space |
| Surface-Exciton Polaritons |
| Excitons in Organic Semiconductors and in Insulators |
| Optical Transitions Above the Fundamental Gap and Core Excitons |
| Forbidden Exciton Transitions |
| Direct Gap Semiconductors |
| Triplet States and Related Transitions |
| Parity Forbidden Band-to-Band Transitions |
| Indirect Gap Semiconductors |
| Intraexcitonic Transitions |
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| Optical Properties of Phonons |
| Phonons in Bulk Semiconductors |
| Surface Phonon Polaritons |
| Defects and Localized Phonon Modes |
| Backfolded Acoustic Phonons |
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| Electrons in a Periodic Crystal |
| Metals, Semiconductors, Insulators |
| An Overview of Semiconducting Materials |
| Electrons and Holes in Crystals as New Quasiparticles |
| The Effective-Mass Concept |
| The Polaron Concept and Other Electron-Phonon Interaction Processes |
| Some Basic Approaches to Band Structure Calculations |
| Bandstructures of Real Semiconductors |
| Density of States, Occupation Probability and Critical Points |
| Electrons and Holes in Quantum Wells and Superlattices |
| Growth of Quantum Wells and of Superlattices |
| Defects, Defect States and Doping |
| Disordered Systems and Localization |
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| Crystals, Lattices, Lattice Vibrations and Phonons |
| Lattices and Crystal Structures in Real and Reciprocal Space |
| Three-Dimensional Crystals |
| Quantization of Lattice Vibrations: Phonons and the Concept of Quasiparticles |
| The Density of States and Phonon Statistics |
| Defects and Localized Phonon Modes |
| Phonons in Superlattices and in other Structures of Reduced Dimensionality |
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| The Concept of Polaritons |
| Polaritons as New Quasiparticles |
| Dispersion Relation of Polaritons |
| Polaritons in Solids, Liquids and Gases and from the IR to the X-ray Region |
| Common Optical Properties of Polaritons |
| How the k-vector Develops |
| Coupled Oscillators and Polaritons with Spatial Dispersion |
| Dielectric Function and the Polariton States with Spatial Dispersion |
| Reflection and Transmission and Additional Boundary Conditions |
| Real and Imaginary Parts of Wave Vector and Frequency |
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| Interaction of Light with Matter |
| Macroscopic Aspects for Solids |
| Laws of Reflection and Refraction |
| Noether??™s Theorem and Some Aspects of Conservation Laws |
| Reflection and Transmission at an Interface and Fresnel??™s Formulae |
| Extinction and Absorption of Light |
| Transmission Through a Slab of Matter and Fabry Perot Modes |
| Birefringence and Dichroism |
| Absorption, Stimulated and Spontaneous Emission, Virtual Excitation |
| Perturbative Treatment of the Linear Interaction of Light with Matter |
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| Semiconductor Bloch Equations |
| Dynamics of a Two-Level System |
| Wave-Function Description |
| Polarization and Inversion as State Variables |
| Linear Response of a Two Level System |
| Semiconductor Bloch Equations |
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| Group Theory in Semiconductor Optics |
| Some Aspects of Abstract Group Theory for Crystals |
| Some Abstract Definitions |
| Classification of the Group Elements |
| Isomorphism and Homomorphism of Groups |
| Theory of Representations and of Characters |
| Hamilton Operator and Group Theory |
| Applications to Semiconductors Optics |
| Some Selected Group Tables |
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| Linear Optical Spectroscopy |
| Equipment for Linear Spectroscopy |
| Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy |
| Equipment for Nonlinear Optics |
| Experimental Techniques and Results |
| Pump-and-Probe Beam Spectroscopy |
| Four-Wave Mixing and Laser-Induced Gratings |
| Time-Resolved Spectroscopy |
| Equipment for Time-Resolved Spectroscopy |
| Experimental Techniques and Results |
| Intraband and Intersubband Relaxation |
| Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy |
| Equipment for Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy |
| Experimental Techniques and Results |
| Spectroscopy Under the Influence of External Fields |
| Equipment for Spectroscopy Under the Influence of External Fields |
| Experimental Techniques and Results |
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| Optical Bistability, Optical Computing, Spintronics and Quantum Computing |
| Basic Concepts and Mechanisms |
| Dispersive Optical Bistability |
| Optical Bistability Due to Bleaching |
| Induced Absorptive Bistability |
| Electro-Optic Bistability |
| Device Ideas, Digital Optical Computing and Why It Failed |
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| Time Resolved Spectroscopy |
| Decoherence and Phase Relaxation |
| Determination of the Phase Relaxation Times |
| Four-Wave Mixing Experiments |
| Other Techniques and Coherent Processes |
| Quantum Coherence, Coherent Control and Non-Markovian Decay |
| Markovian versus Non-Markovian Damping |
| Damping by LO Phonon Emission and Other Processes |
| Intra-Subband and Inter-Subband Relaxation |
| Formation Times of Various Collective Excitations |
| Intraband and Inter-subband Relaxation |
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| Band Gap Renormalization and Phase Diagram |
| Electron-Hole Plasmas in Bulk Semiconductors |
| Electron-Hole Plasmas in Direct-Gap Semiconductors |
| Electron-Hole Plasma in Structures of Reduced Dimensionality |
| Inter-subband Transitions in Unipolar and Bipolar Plasmas |
| Structures of Reduced Dimensionality |
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| The Intermediate Density Regime |
| Two-Photon Absorption by Excitons |
| Elastic and Inelastic Scattering Processes |
| Structures of Reduced Dimensionality |
| Optical or ac Stark Effect |
| Excitonic Bose-Einstein Condensation |
| Attempts to find BEC in Bulk Semiconductors |
| Structures of Reduced Dimensionality |
| Driven Excitonic Bose-Einstein Condensations |
| Excitonic Insulators and Other Systems |
| Photo-thermal Optical Nonlinearities |
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| From Cavity Polaritons to Photonic Crystals |
| Photonic Crystals and Photonic Band Gap Structures |
| Introduction to the Basic Concepts |
| Realization of Photonic Crystals and Applications |
| Photonic Atoms, Molecules and Crystals |
| Further Developments of Photonic Crystals |
| A Few Words about Metamaterials |
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| Excitons Under the Influence of External Fields |
| Nonmagnetic Bulk Semiconductors |
| Diluted Magnetic Bulk Semiconductors |
| Semiconductor Structures of Reduced Dimensionality |
| Semiconductor Structures of Reduced Dimensionality |
| Structures of Reduced Dimensionality |
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