Laser Spectroscopy III: Proceedings of the Third International Conference, Jackson Lake Lodge, Wyoming, USA, July 4–8, 1977

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Present Status of the Laser Revolution in Spectroscopy....Pages 1-8
Experimental Study of a Highly Forbidden Magnetic Transition, Search for Parity Violation....Pages 9-20
Search for Optical Rotation Induced by the Weak Neutral Current....Pages 21-30
Infrared Heterodyne Spectroscopy in Astronomy....Pages 31-38
Precision Measurement of the Ground State Lamb Shift in Hydrogen and Deuterium....Pages 39-43
Selective Single Atom Detection in a 10 19 Atom Background....Pages 44-55
Laser Frequency Measurements: A Review, Limitations, Extension to 197 THz (1.5μm)....Pages 56-68
Laser Spectroscopy of the Hydrogen Molecular ion HD + ....Pages 69-75
Selective Dissociation of Polyatomic Molecules by Two Infrared Pulses....Pages 76-85
Collisionless Multiphoton Dissociation of SF 6 : A Statistical Thermodynamic Process....Pages 86-93
Multiphoton Dissociation of Polyatomic Molecules Studied with a Molecular Beam....Pages 94-101
Laser Diode Spectra of Spherical-Top Molecules....Pages 102-108
Coherent Versus Stochastic Theories of Collisionless Multiple-Photon Excitation of Polyatomic Molecules....Pages 109-115
Multiphoton Dissociation of Polyatomic Molecules: Quantum or Classical?....Pages 116-120
Progress in Understanding Sub-Doppler Line Shapes....Pages 121-134
Optical Ramsey Fringes in Two-Photon Spectroscopy....Pages 135-141
Ramsey Fringes in Saturation Spectroscopy....Pages 142-148
Multiple Coherent Interactions....Pages 149-153
Doppler-Free Laser-Induced Dichroism and Birefringence....Pages 154-159
Identification of Rydberg States in the Atomic Lanthanides and actinides....Pages 160-169
Multiphoton Ionization Spectroscopy of the Alkaline Earths....Pages 170-182
Measurement and Calculation of Excited Alkali Hyperfine and Stark Parameters....Pages 183-194
Spontaneous Raman Effect in Intense Laser Fields....Pages 195-204
Collisional and Radiative Effects in Three-Level Systems....Pages 205-212
Superfluorescence in Cesium: Comparison with Theory and Application to Quantum Beat Spectroscopy....Pages 213-219
Coherent Transients and Pulse Fourier Transform Spectroscopy....Pages 220-230
High Resolution Studies in Fast Ion Beams....Pages 231-242
Laser Saturation Spectroscopy in the Time-Delayed Mode....Pages 243-257
Optical Transients in Doppler-Free Two-Photon Excitation....Pages 258-267
Coherent Optical Spectroscopy of Molecules Undergoing Resonance Scattering and Radiationless Transitions: The Right-Angle Photon Echo....Pages 268-278
Infrared-Microwave Double Resonance....Pages 279-286
RF Spectroscopy in a Laser Cavity: “Pure” Nuclear Quadrupole Spectra....Pages 287-298
Investigation of the Fine Structure Splitting of Rydberg States....Pages 299-305
Laser-Induced Line Shifts and Double-Quantum Lamb Dips....Pages 306-314
Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy....Pages 315-324
Laser Spectroscopy Relevant to Stratospheric Photochemistry....Pages 325-332
Long Range Interaction between CW Laser Beams in an Atomic Vapor....Pages 333-343
Phase Matching of 2-Photon Resonant 4-Wave Mixing Processes....Pages 344-354
Laser Spectroscopy of Bound Nane and Related Atomic Physics....Pages 355-364
Optically Pumped Continuous Alkali Dimer Lasers....Pages 365-369
Tunable Infrared Lasers Using Color Centers....Pages 370-375
IR Spectroscopy Via Difference-Frequency Generation....Pages 376-381
Pulsed and cw Optically Pumped Lasers for Novel Applications in Spectroscopy and Kinetics....Pages 382-393
Generation and Applications of 16 GHz Tunable Sidebands from a CO 2 Laser....Pages 394-401
The Free Electron Laser....Pages 402-409
Laser Wavelength Measurements, Why? How? and How Accurate?....Pages 410-411
Digital Wavemeter for cw Lasers....Pages 412-413
A Wavelength Meter....Pages 414-416
Motionless Michelson for High Precision Laser Frequency Measurements: The Sigmameter....Pages 417-418
Fizeau Wavelength Meter....Pages 419-420
A Traveling Michelson Interferometer with Phase-Locked Fringe Interpolation....Pages 421-422
A Self-Calibrating Grating....Pages 423-424
A Simple Moving-Carriage Interferometer for 1 in 10 7 Wavelength Intercomparison, and a Servocontrolled Fabry-Perot System for 3 in 10 11 Accuracy....Pages 425-426
Tunable Laser Infrared Photochemistry at Cryogenic Temperatures....Pages 427-428
Measurement of a Diamagnetic Shift in Atomic Hyperfine Structure....Pages 429-430
Light-Assisted Collisional Energy Transfer....Pages 431-432
Two-Photon Optical Free-Induction Decay in Atomic Sodium Vapor....Pages 433-434
Doppler-Free Coherent Two-Photon Transients by Stark Switching....Pages 435-436
Sub-Doppler Spectroscopy of NO 2 ....Pages 437-438
Dissociation of Matrix-Isolated Molecules by Infrared Laser Radiation....Pages 439-442
Infrared Spectroscopy of Molecular Beams....Pages 443-443
Observation of Infrared Lamb Dips in Separated Optical Isomers....Pages 444-445
High-Resolution Spectroscopy in Fast Atomic Beams....Pages 446-447
High Performance Spectrometer for Doppler-Free Spectroscopy: Study of the Hyperfine Predissociation in Iodine Molecules....Pages 448-449
Polarization Spectroscopy of Condensed Phases....Pages 450-451
Quantitative Analysis of Resonant Third Harmonic Generation in Sr-Xe Mixtures....Pages 452-453
New Spectral Information by Lamb-Dip Spectroscopy....Pages 454-454
Detection of Very Weak Absorption Lines with the Aid of Neodymium-Glass and Dye Lasers....Pages 455-455
Polarization Dependence and Franck-Condon Factors of a Velocity-Tuned Na 2 Two-Photon Transition....Pages 456-456
Double and Triple Resonance Studies of Rotational Relaxations in NH 3 -He and NH 3 -H 2 Collisions....Pages 457-458
Time Resolved Spectroscopy of the 2p-1s Transition in Neon....Pages 459-460
Back Matter....Pages 461-470