Coherence, cooperation and fluctuations

This book presents the papers given at a conference on quantum optics. Topics considered at the conference included the growth of precipitates in a super saturated system, a space-time picture of relativistic propagation of medium energy hadrons through nuclei, lattice gauge theories, electron-nucleus scattering, short optical pulses, gaussons of the electromagnetic field, collision-induced coherence, spontaneous oscillations in a laser with injected signals, amplitude and phase in quantum optics, and Rydberg atoms in resonant cavities