Professor Yoshihisa Yamamoto has performed his research at Tokyo University, MIT, Stanford and other prestigious institutions before he became professor at Stanford. He teaches various courses on quantum optics and has published more than 350 papers and two books.Atac Imamoglu is the author of Mesoscopic Quantum Optics, published by Wiley.

• Basic Concepts. Canonical Quantization. Quantum States of the Electromagnetic Fields. Coherence of the Electromagnetic Fields. Quantum States of Atoms. Interaction between Atoms and Fields. Mathematical Methods for System-Reservoir Interaction. Stochastic Wavefunction Methods. Quantum Nondemolition Measurements. Semiconductor Bloch Equations. Excitons and Polaritons. Coulomb Blockade and Squeezing. Current Noise in Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Conductors. Nonequilibrium Green's Function Formalism. Quantum Statistical Properties of a Laser. Index.