- Semiclassical Light-Atom-Interaction, Optical Bloch Equations
- Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field, (Fock States, Coherent States, Squeezed States)
- Quantized Light-Atom Interaction: Jaynes-Cummings-Model
- Dressed State Picture
- Quantum-Rabi Oscillations
- Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics, Nondestructive Detection of a Photon
- Wigner-Weisskopf-Theory of Spontaneous Emission
- Resonance Fluorescence, Mollow Triplett
- Three Level Systems, STIRAP, EIT, LWI
- Classical Coherence Theory
- Correlations and Photon Statistics
- Spatial and Temporal Coherence
- Intensity Fluctuations, Hanbury Brown & Twiss Experiment
- Entanglement, EPR Experiments and Bell's Inequalities
- Schrödinger Cat States
- Quantum Teleportation
- Laser Cooling of Atoms and Ions
- Basic elements of quantum information processing
- Quantum Cryptography
- Quantum Computing with Ion Traps
