Advances in Laser Spectroscopy

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Density Matrix Equations and Diagrams for High Resolution Non-Linear Laser Spectroscopy: Application to Ramsey Fringes in the Optical Domain....Pages 1-70
Rydberg Atoms in Magnetic and Electric Fields....Pages 71-75
Doppler Free Spectroscopy....Pages 77-98
The Lineshapes of Subdoppler Resonances Observable with FM-Side-Band (Optical Heterodyne) Laser Techniques....Pages 99-126
High Resolution Laser Spectroscopy....Pages 127-151
Stored-Ion Spectroscopy....Pages 153-187
Progress in Tunable Lasers....Pages 189-215
UV — Generation in CW Dye Lasers....Pages 217-223
Applications of Laser Spectroscopy....Pages 225-264
High Resolution Laser Spectroscopy of Radioactive Atoms and Rydberg Atoms....Pages 265-266
High Resolution Laser Spectroscopy in the Far Infrared....Pages 267-295
Sub-Doppler and Subhomogeneous Spectroscopy in Three-Level Systems: Superhigh Resolution and Information....Pages 297-307
Infrared — Far Infrared Spectroscopy of Methanol by Optically Pumped Far Infrared Laser Emission....Pages 309-318
Unimolecular Fragmentation Kinetics Following Laser-Induced Multiphoton Ionization of Polyatomic Molecules....Pages 319-330
Laser Snow Effect in CS 2 Vapour....Pages 331-337
An Introduction to Picosecond Spectroscopy....Pages 339-364
New Phenomena in Coherent Optical Transients....Pages 365-367
Optical Bistability....Pages 369-380
The Search for Parity Non-Conservation in Atoms....Pages 381-415
Laser Photoionization Selective Detection of Atoms, Molecules and Molecular Bonds....Pages 417-435
Observation, State Reduction and the Quantum Eraser in Quantum Optics....Pages 437-449
A Two-Photon Experiment Concerning Delayed Choice and Hidden Variables in Quantum Mechanics....Pages 451-463
Subnatural Spectroscopy....Pages 465-475
Spectroscopic Applications of Phase Conjugation....Pages 477-483
Corscat: The Relativistic Electron Scatterer for Coherent UV and X-Ray Generation....Pages 485-496
Possible New Approach to Free-Electron Lasers....Pages 497-497
Back Matter....Pages 499-506