Chapter 1 Cavity Induced Interfacing of Atoms and Light

Chapter 2 A Highly Efficient Single Photon-Single Quantum Dot Interface

Chapter 3 Photon-Atom Coupling with Parabolic Mirrors

Chapter 4 Free Space Interference Experiments with Single Photons and Single Ions

Chapter 5 Single Photon Absorption by a Single Atom: From Heralded Absorption to Polarization State Mapping

Chapter 7 Generation, Characterization and Use of Atom-Resonant Indistinguishable Photon Pairs

Chapter 8 On-Demand Release of a Heralded Quantum State from Concatenated Optical Cavities

Chapter 9 Quantum Light Storage in Solid State Atomic Ensembles

Chapter 10 Engineering of Quantum Dot Photon Sources via Electro-elastic Fields

Chapter 11 Resonant Excitation and Photon Entanglement from Semiconductor Quantum Dots

Chapter 12 Generation and Application of Frequency-Uncorrelated Photon Pairs

Chapter 13 Single Semiconductor Quantum Dots in Microcavities: Bright Sources of Indistinguishable Photons

Chapter 14 Towards Quantum Repeaters with Solid-State Qubits: Spin-Photon Entanglement Generation Using Self-assembled Quantum Dots