Contents:

• Interaction of Atoms with Very Intense Fields (C Altucci et al.)
• Spin-Orbit Interaction of a Photon in an Inhomogeneous Medium (V S Liberman & B Ya Zel’dovich)
• Photoinduced Magnetic Kerr Rotation in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors (S Hugonnard-Bruyère et al.)
• Local Field Corrections in Linear and Nonlinear Optics (R W Boyd & J E Sipe)
• Electromagnetic Vacuum Confinement Effects in the Optical Microscopic Cavity (F De Martini et al.)
• Radiative Renormalization Applied to Strong Field, Resonant Nonlinear Optical Interactions (O Blum et al.)
• Prospects for X-Ray Nonlinear Optics (A E Kaplan & P L Shkolnikov)
• Principal Nonresonant Optical Nonlinearities of Nematic and Isotropic Liquid Crystals (I C Khoo)
• Nonlinear Photonics in Crystalline Organic Multiple Quantum Wells (J F Lam)
• Ultrafast All-Optical Waveguide Switching (G I Stegeman)
• Resonant Phase Conjugation (C J Gaeta)
• Photorefractive Nonlinear Optics and Applications (P Yeh & C Gu)
• Optical Parametric Oscillators (C L Tang)
• Generation of Femtosecond Laser Pulses and Application to Nonlinear Optics (A Cybo-Ottone et al.)
• The Optics of Porous Glasses (G B Altshuler)
• Periodic Alternation, Chaotic Itinerancy and Space- Time Chaos in Optics: Patterns and Topological Defects (F T Arecchi et al.)