This advanced course on quantum electronics is concerned with the physical basis and applications of intense resonant interactions of laser light with matter. It is presented here using modern mathematical tools.

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Lecture One Introduction.- Lecture Two Coherent Interaction.- Lecture Three Photon Echo and Self-Induced Transparency Phenomena.- Lecture Four Relaxation Processes.- Lecture Five Susceptibility of a Two-Level System.- Lecture Six Saturation of Inhomogeneously Broadened Lines.- Lecture Seven Laser Gas-Kinetics.- Lecture Eight Laser Gas-Kinetics (continued).- Lecture Nine Multiphoton Processes.- Lecture Ten Coherent Processes in Complicated Multilevel Systems.- Lecture Eleven Coherent Processes in Complicated Multilevel Systems (continued).- Lecture Twelve Collisional Relaxation.- Lecture Thirteen Parametric Phenomena as Processes in Multilevel Systems.- Lecture Fourteen Resonant Excitation of Atoms.- Lecture Fifteen Spectra of Molecules.- Lecture Sixteen Excitation of Molecules.- Lecture Seventeen Excitation of Molecules (continued).- Lecture Eighteen Excitation of Colliding Molecules.- Lecture Nineteen Excitation of Electronic Transitions in Molecules.- Lecture Twenty Laser Thermochemistry. Processes on a Surface.- Lecture Twenty-one Self-Influence of Laser Radiation in Intense Resonant Interactions.- Afterword.- 1. Diske's Cooperative Effect.- 2. Dipole-Dipole Interaction as a Process in Multilevel Systems.- Bibliography to the English Edition.