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This volume presents a collection of papers, written during the last 30 years by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and his collaborators, on various physical effects which can be observed on atoms interacting with electromagnetic fields. It consists of a personal selection of review papers, lectures given at schools, as well as original experimental papers. Emphasis is put on physical mechanisms and on general approaches, such as the dressed atom approach, having a wide range of applications. Various topics are discussed, such as light shifts, level crossing resonances, multiphoton processes, resonance fluorescence in intense laser fields, photon correlations, quantum jumps, radiative corrections, laser cooling and trapping. This volume includes short introductions by the author. Each paper presented in the volume is preceded by a short commentary giving its motivations, explaining how it fits with the general evolution of the research field, and pointing out connections existing between works done at different periods.

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World Scientific has performed a service for all with an interest in the most recent history of physics by inducing Cohen-Tannoudji to bring together -- and by reproducing photographically in so well-produced a volume -- this selection of his scientific papers ... As the dates of publication of the papers in each section have relatively small temporal dispersion and the ordering of the sections is essentially chronologic, the volume gives the trajectory both of Cohen-Tannoudji's attention and of the development of his field. Paul Forman Science, USA

"""World Scientific has performed a service for all with an interest in the most recent history of physics by inducing Cohen-Tannoudji to bring together -- and by reproducing photographically in so well-produced a volume -- this selection of his scientific papers ... As the dates of publication of the papers in each section have relatively small temporal dispersion and the ordering of the sections is essentially chronologic, the volume gives the trajectory both of Cohen-Tannoudji's attention and of the development of his field."" Paul Forman Science, USA"

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