Content: Quantum Harmonic Oscillators QUANTISING THE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR FLUCTUATIONS AND DISSIPATION IN A QUANTUM HARMONIC OSCILLATOR MODELLING OPEN SYSTEM DYNAMICS VIA QUANTUM LANGEVIN EQUATIONS QUANTUM LANGEVIN EQUATION WITHIN THE ROTATING WAVE APPROXIMATION Radiation Pressure Interaction BASIC RADIATION PRESSURE INTERACTION EFFECTIVE QUANTISATION DISPERSIVE OPTOMECHANICS ELECTRO AND OPTOMECHANICAL SYSTEMS MECHANICAL AND OPTICAL DECOHERENCE RATES DYNAMICS OF DISPERSIVE OPTOMECHANICAL SYSTEMSLINEARISATION OF THE OPTOMECHANICAL HAMILTONIANDISSIPATIVE OPTOMECHANICS Linear Quantum Measurement of Mechanical Motion FREE MASS STANDARD QUANTUM LIMIT RADIATION PRESSURE SHOT NOISE MEASUREMENT OF MECHANICAL MOTION STANDARD QUANTUM LIMIT ON MECHANICAL POSITION MEASUREMENT STANDARD QUANTUM LIMIT FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVE INTERFEROMETRY STANDARD QUANTUM LIMIT FOR FORCE MEASUREMENTCoherent Interaction between Light and MechanicsSTRONG COUPLING OPTICAL COOLING OF MECHANICAL MOTIONOPTOMECHANICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY OPTOMECHANICAL ENTANGLEMENT MECHANICAL SQUEEZING OF LIGHT Linear Quantum Control of Mechanical Motion STOCHASTIC MASTER EQUATION INCLUDING DISSIPATIONFEEDBACK COOLING BACK-ACTION EVADING MEASUREMENT SURPASSING THE STANDARD QUANTUM LIMIT USING SQUEEZED LIGHT Single Photon Optomechanics OPTOMECHANICAL PHOTON BLOCKADE SINGLE PHOTON STATES SINGLE PHOTON PULSE INCIDENT ON A SINGLE-SIDED OPTOMECHANICAL CAVITYDOUBLE CAVITY OPTOMECHANICAL SYSTEMMACROSCOPIC SUPERPOSITION STATES USING SINGLE PHOTON OPTOMECHANICSNonlinear OptomechanicsTHE DUFFING NONLINEARITYTHE QUANTUM DUFFING OSCILLATORNONLINEAR DAMPINGSELF-PULSING AND LIMIT CYCLESNONLINEAR MEASUREMENT OF A MECHANICAL RESONATORHybrid Optomechanical Systems ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMSCOUPLING A MECHANICAL RESONATOR AND A TWO-LEVEL SYSTEMMICROWAVE - OPTICAL INTERFACEArrays of Optomechanical SystemsSYNCHRONISATION IN OPTOMECHANICAL ARRAYSIRREVERSIBLY COUPLED ARRAYS OF OPTOMECHANICAL SYSTEMSGravitational Quantum Physics and OptomechanicsWHAT IS GRAVITATIONAL DECOHERENCE? OPTOMECHANICAL TESTS OF GRAVITATIONAL DECOHERENCETESTS OF NONSTANDARD GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTSUSING GEOMETRIC PHASEAppendix: Linear Detection of Optical Fields EFFECT OF INEFFICIENCIES LINEAR DETECTION OF OPTICAL FIELDS POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY OBTAINED BY HETERODYNE DETECTION CHARACTERISING THE OPTOMECHANICAL COOPERATIVITYCHARACTERISING THE TEMPERATURE OF A MECHANICAL OSCILLATOR