Quantum Optics VI documents the most recent theoretical and experimental developments in this field, with particular emphasis on atomic optics and interferometry, which is a new and rapidly developing area of research. New methods for quantum-noise reduction are also covered.

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I Quantum Optics Experiments.- An Axially Symmetric Imaging System for Ultra-Cold Neutral Atoms.- Matter-Wave Optics and Interferometry with Laser-Cooled Atoms.- Towards a Cold-Atom Matter-Wave Interferometer.- Uncertainty-Principle-Limited Position Measurement of Moving Atoms.- Atoms Optics with Standing Waves of Light.- II Atomic Optics Theory.- Quantum Effects in Atomic Diffraction and Reflection.- Theory of Interactions Between Laser-Cooled Atoms.- Many-Body Theory of Atom Optics.- Bragg Scattering of a Coherent Ultracold Atomic Beam in Nonlinear Atom Optics.- Atom Optics in Quantized Light Fields.- Quantum Nonlinear Dynamics in Atom Optics.- Non-Classical States of Motion and Quantum Collapse and Revival in an Ion Trap.- III Quantum Measurement and Quantum Noise.- Quantum Non-Demolition Measurements and Back-Action-Induced Squeezing in Atomic-Three-Level Systems.- Competing ?(2) Nonlinearities in a Cavity.- Measurement Effects on Quantum Optical Systems.- Quantum-Optical Phase and Its Measurement.- Nonlinear Quantum Optics with Few Atoms.- Dissipative Environments: Quantum Jumps or Phase-Space Localization?.- Ponderomotive Control of Quantum Noise.- Quantum Soliton Collisions: Logic and QND.- Nonlinear and Quantum Dynamics of an Optical Cavity Containing Cold Atoms.- Quantum Optics with Mirrors.- Decoherence: Is Dissipation All It Takes?.- IV New Theoretical Techniques.- Quantum Optical Correlations: A Green's Function Approach.- Wigner Distributions for Quantum States with Minimum Phase Uncertainty.- Spatial and Temporal Optical Field Reconstruction Using Phase-Space Tomography.- Driving Atoms with Light of Arbitrary Statistics.- Quantum Trajectories and Stochastic Schrödinger Equation for Nonlinear Optical Processes.- V Applications in Laser Physics.- Intensity Coherence in Multimode Lasers.- Electron-Photon Manipulation with Sub-Poissonian Semiconductor Junction Arrays.- Near Dipole-Dipole Effects in Nonlinear and Quantum Optics with Applications to Piezophotonic Switching.- A Superradiant Laser.- Laser-Induced Processes in Molecular Systems.- Coherent Pulse Propagation in Mode-Locked Laser Systems.- Long-Range Atom-Dielectric Interactions.- Index of Contributors.