• Atoms in Weak Broadband Quasiresonant Light Fields. Lights Shifts -- Linear Superpositions of Atomic Sublevels; Atoms in Strong Radiofrequency Fields. The Dressed Atom Approach in the Radiofrequency Domain; Atoms in Intense Resonant Laser Beams. The Dressed Atom Approach in the Optical Domain; Photon Correlations and Quantum Jumps. The Radiative Cascade of the Dressed Atom; Atoms in High Frequency Fields or in the Vacuum Field. Simple Physical Pictures for Radiative Corrections; Atomic Motion in Laser Light; Sisyphus Cooling and Subrecoil Cooling; Levy Statistics and Laser Cooling; Bose-Einstein Condensation.

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