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Quantum chaos for kicked spins.- Localization and delocalization in a dissipative quantum map.- Coherences and correlations in chaotic optical signals.- Squeezed state generation by the normal mode splitting of two-level atoms in an optical cavity.- Quantum noise reduction via twin photon beam generation.- Dynamics of three-level atoms: jumping and squeezing.- Interferometric detection of gravitational radiation and nonclassical light.- “Quantum jumps” observed in single-ion fluorescence.- Macroscopic quantum jumps.- Spontaneous emission in confined space.- The micromaser as a problem in “Quantum chaology”.- Rydberg atoms two-photon micromaser.- Preparation of cold atoms for precision measurements.- Atomic motion in a resonant laser standing wave.- Low-temperature physics with laser cooling.- Expectation values, Q-functions and eigenvalues for dispersive optical bistatbility.- Berry's phase and the parallel transport of polarization.- Raman heterodyne ramsey spectroscopy in local space and velocity space.- Dissipative death of quantum effects in a spin system.- Period doubling in a quantized version of Henon's map.- Resonance overlap and diffusion of the action variable in the laserexcitation of molecular vibrations.- Winding numbers and collisions between attractors in a laser system.- Squeezed quantum fluctuations and noise limits in amplifiers and attenuators.- Ordered structures of ions stored in a RF-Trap.- Quenching of quantum noise and detection of weak optical signals in the quantum beat laser.- Light pressure induced nonlinear dispersion in a Doppler-broadened medium.- Unstable periodic atomic orbitals.- Virtual cloud effects in spontaneous decay.