Laser Spectroscopy VIII: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference, Åre, Sweden, June 22–26, 1987

Front Matter....Pages I-XX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
High Resolution Laser Spectroscopy of Atomic Hydrogen....Pages 2-7
Determination of the Rydberg Constant by Doppler-Free Two-Photon Spectroscopy of Hydrogen Rydberg States....Pages 8-11
Absolute Wavelength Measurements and Fundamental Atomic Physics....Pages 12-17
Precision cw Laser Spectroscopy of Hydrogen and Deuterium....Pages 18-21
First Antiprotons in an Ion Trap....Pages 22-25
Antihydrogen Production....Pages 26-27
Excitation of the 1 S -2 S Transition in Muonium....Pages 28-29
Atomic Physics in Confined Space: Suppressing Spontaneous Emission at Optical Frequencies and Measuring the Van der Waals Atom-Surface Interaction....Pages 30-35
Enhanced and Suppressed Visible Spontaneous Emission by Atoms in a Concentric Optical Resonator....Pages 36-38
Single Atomic Particle at Rest in Free Space: Shift-Free Suppression of the Natural Line Width?....Pages 39-42
Parity Violation in Atoms....Pages 43-47
Towards Precise Parity Violation Measurements in Cesium: Non-linear Optics Experiments in a Forbidden Three-Level System....Pages 48-49
Intracavity Polarimetry with a Sodium Dimer Ring Laser....Pages 50-51
Fundamental Tests of Special Relativity and the Isotropy of Space....Pages 52-55
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Laser Cooling and Trapping of Atoms....Pages 58-63
New Measurements with Optical Molasses....Pages 64-67
Optical Pumping in Translation Space....Pages 68-72
Ordered Structures of Ions Stored in an rf Trap....Pages 73-74
Laser Cooling of Mg + Ions and First Experimental Observation of Resonant Particle Transport in a Penning Trap....Pages 75-76
Experiment to Observe a Two-Photon Transition in Stored Hg + ....Pages 77-78
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
High Accuracy Measurment of the g J Factor of the 40 Ca Metastable Triplet Levels....Pages 79-80
Atomic Motion in a Laser Standing Wave....Pages 81-86
Optical Elements for Manipulating Atoms....Pages 87-92
Acceleration of a Fast Atomic Beam by Laser Radiation Pressure....Pages 93-94
Superhigh Resolution Laser Spectroscopy with Cold Particles....Pages 95-98
Light-Induced Drift and Isotope Separation in Alkali-Noble Gas Systems....Pages 99-104
Wall Frictionless Light-Induced Drift....Pages 105-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Macroscopic Quantum Jumps in a Single Atom....Pages 108-111
On the Theory of Quantum Jumps....Pages 112-113
Quantum Jumps and Laser Spectroscopy of a Single Barium Ion Using “Shelving”....Pages 114-116
The Observation of Quantum Jumps in Hg + ....Pages 117-120
Quantum Jumps and Related Phenomena of Single Ions and Small Ion Clouds....Pages 121-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Quantum Devices and Measurements....Pages 126-132
One-Atom Oscillators for Nonclassical Radiation....Pages 133-138
Tests of General Relativity and the Correlated Emission Laser....Pages 139-142
Generation and Application of Squeezed States of Light....Pages 143-145
Application of Squeezed-State Light to Laser Stabilization....Pages 146-149
Quantum Nondemolition Detection and Squeezing in Optical Fibers....Pages 150-151
Two-Photon Chaotic States of the Radiation Field....Pages 152-153
Squeezing Intensity Noise on Laser-like Beams....Pages 154-155
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Probing Quantum Chaos and Localization in the Diamagnetic Kepler Problem....Pages 156-157
Weak Localization of Light....Pages 158-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
High Resolution Laser Spectroscopy of Radioactive Atoms....Pages 162-166
Ultrasensitive Laser Photoionization Spectroscopy of Short-Lived Isotopes and Very Rare Atoms....Pages 167-175
A New Sensitive Technique for Laser Spectroscopic Studies of Radioactive Rare-Gas Isotopes....Pages 176-177
Two-Photon Spectroscopy of Atomic Fluorine and Oxygen....Pages 178-180
Spectroscopy on Laser-Evaporated Boron and Carbon....Pages 181-182
Highly Excited Barium Rydberg States in External Fields....Pages 183-184
CW Laser Spectroscopy of Long-Lived 5dnl (1>2) Autoionizing States in Bal....Pages 185-187
Laser Spectroscopy of Double-Rydberg States of Barium....Pages 188-189
Some Studies on Barium Autoionization States....Pages 190-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Impact of Laser Spectroscopy on Chemistry....Pages 194-197
Rydberg States of H 2 ....Pages 198-201
Laser/Electric Field Dissociation Spectroscopy of Molecular Ions....Pages 202-205
Radiative Lifetimes of Xe 2 , Kr 2 , and Ar 2 Excimers and Dependence on Internuclear Distance....Pages 206-207
Laser-Induced Fluorescence of Hg 2 and Hg 3 Excimers....Pages 208-211
Observation of Ba 2 Excimer Structure and Investigation of Ionization Processes of Rydberg Atoms and Molecules....Pages 212-213
High Resolution UV Studies of Free Radicals....Pages 214-215
High Resolution Diode Laser Spectroscopy of Transient Species....Pages 216-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-220
High-Resolution Laser Photofragment Spectroscopy of Near-Threshold Resonances in SiH + ....Pages 193-193
High-Resolution Zero Kinetic Energy Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Nitric Oxide....Pages 221-222
Coherent Laser Spectroscopy....Pages 223-224
CARS Investigation of Relaxation Processes in Highly Excited Molecules....Pages 225-228
Four-Wave Processes in Spectroscopy of Vibrational Molecular States....Pages 229-230
Dynamic and Static Properties of Molecules in Highly Excited Vibrational States....Pages 231-233
Highly Nonthermal Intramolecular Energy Distribution in Isolated Infrared Multiphoton Excited CF 2 Cl 2 Molecules....Pages 234-235
Stimulated Emission from Normally Non-fluorescent T.I.C.T. States of 7-DAMC....Pages 236-238
Picosecond Spectroscopy of Molecular Dynamics of Proteins and Enzymes....Pages 239-241
Front Matter....Pages 242-244
CARS Spectroscopy of NH 3 Clusters in Supersonic Jets....Pages 245-245
Doppler-free Laser Spectroscopy of Na 3 ....Pages 246-247
Optical Spectrum of the Icosahedral C 60 — “Follene-60”: A Challenge for Laser Spectroscopy....Pages 248-250
Second-Harmonic and Sum-Frequency Generation for Surface Studies....Pages 251-252
Second Harmonic Generation on the (111) Surface of BaF 2 ....Pages 253-256
Study of Adsorbates on a Silver Surface by Sum-Frequency Generation with Surface Plasmon Waves....Pages 257-259
Adsorbate Resonance Enhancement in Optical Surface Second-Harmonic Generation....Pages 260-261
Narrow Resonances in CdSSe Doped Glasses: An Application of Frequency Domain 4-Wave Mixing....Pages 262-263
Nonlinear Doppler-free Spectroscopy of Gas-Phase Atoms at Glass-Vapor Interfaces....Pages 264-266
Laser Photothermal Surface Spectroscopy....Pages 267-271
Dynamics and Topography in Molecular Beam Scattering on Surfaces: A Comparative Study of NO on Diamond and Graphite....Pages 272-273
Front Matter....Pages 274-278
Multiphoton-Stimulated Emission of Electrons and Ions from the (111) Surface of BaF 2 ....Pages 245-245
Four-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy of Metastable Defect States in Diamond....Pages 279-280
Front Matter....Pages 281-282
Four-Wave Mixing and Stimulated Emission Processes in Strongly Driven Systems....Pages 283-283
Self-Oscillation Due to Four-Wave Mixing and to Pressure-Induced Two-Wave Mixing in Sodium....Pages 284-286
Two-Photon-Excited Parametric and Wave-Mixing Processes in Atomic Sodium....Pages 287-288
Narrow Resonances in Four-Wave Mixing Due to Radiative Decay....Pages 289-290
Experimental Observation of Nonlinear Birefringence in a J=1/2 to J=1/2 System....Pages 291-293
Laser Modified Birefringence in a Doppler Broadened Medium....Pages 294-296
Nonlinear Magneto-Optic Effects in a J=1 to J’=0 Transition....Pages 297-299
Collision-Induced Ramsey Resonances in Sm Vapor....Pages 300-301
Optical Resonances with Subnatural Linewidths Resulting from Nonstationary Optical Pumping....Pages 302-303
A New SO(4)-Based Scheme for Producing Atoms in Circular Rydberg States....Pages 304-305
Transmission Zeeman Beat Spectroscopy for Determination of Depolarisation Rates in Atomic Ground States....Pages 306-307
Broadband Light Photon Echoes and Collisional Energy Transfers....Pages 308-309
Competition Effects Among Nonlinear Optical Processes....Pages 310-311
Resonant Optical Suppression of the Van der Waals Force....Pages 312-313
Light-Induced Cherenkov Emission....Pages 314-316
Front Matter....Pages 317-318
Recent Developments in CARS Combustion Spectroscopy....Pages 319-319
The Rotational Dual Broadband Approach and Noise Considerations in CARS Spectroscopy....Pages 320-323
Resonance CARS Spectroscopy of the OH Radical in Flames and Discharge....Pages 324-325
Front Matter....Pages 326-329
Electronically Resonant CARS Spectroscopy of C 2 in a Flame....Pages 319-319
CARS Thermometry of a H 2 Supersonic Jet....Pages 330-332
Subharmonic Resonances in Higher-Order Collision-Enhanced Wave Mixing in a Sodium-Seeded Flame....Pages 333-334
Recent Advances in Flame Diagnostics Using Fluorescence and Ionization Techniques....Pages 335-336
LIF with Tunable Excimer Lasers as a Possible Method for Instantaneous Temperature Field Measurements at High Pressures....Pages 337-340
Collision-Free Energy Distribution of OH Radicals After H 2 O 2 Photolysis Using LIF in a Flow System....Pages 341-341
Laser Diagnostics of Radicals in Catalytic Reactions....Pages 342-343
Development of Element Determination Methods by Resonance Ionization Spectrometry....Pages 344-345
Laser Monitoring in the Atmosphere....Pages 346-348
Applications of Laser and Lidar Spectroscopy to Meteorological Remote Sensing....Pages 349-351
Laser Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere....Pages 352-354
High-Resolution Water Vapor Spectroscopic Measurements in the 720-nm Region for Lidar Meteorological Applications....Pages 355-360
Analysis of Surface Films on Liquids by Pulsed Laser Photoacoustic Spectroscopy....Pages 361-363
Spectroscopic Diagnosis for Control of Laser Treatment of Atherosclerosis....Pages 364-365
Laser Spectral Analysis of Human Atherosclerotic Vessels....Pages 366-369
Diagnostics of Cancer Tumours and Atherosclerotic Plaque Using Laser-Induced Fluorescence....Pages 370-371
Front Matter....Pages 372-373
Towards the Ultimate Laser Resolution....Pages 375-375
Effects of Curvature in Laser Spectroscopy with Strong Fields....Pages 376-380
Single Recoil Component Optical Ramsey Fringes at 514.5 nm in an I 2 Supersonic Beam....Pages 381-385
High Resolution Optical Multiplex Spectroscopy....Pages 386-387
Front Matter....Pages 388-389
Fourier Transform Heterodyne Spectroscopy: A Simple Novel Technique with Ultrahigh (150 mHz) Resolution....Pages 375-375
High Frequency Modulation Spectroscopy....Pages 390-392
Laser Sideband Spectroscopy of Molecules....Pages 393-394
Sideband Saturation Spectroscopy with a Frequency-Modulated PbSnTe Diode Laser....Pages 395-397
A New Method of Signal Recording and Averaging in Diode-Laser Spectroscopy....Pages 398-399
Velocity-Modulated Laser Spectroscopy Using GaAlAs Diode Lasers....Pages 400-401
A High Sensitivity Modulation Method for Atomic Beam Absorption Spectroscopy....Pages 402-403
The Inverse Hook Method for Measuring Oscillator Strengths....Pages 404-405
High Precision Measurements of Vapor Densities....Pages 406-406
An Atomic Resonance Filter Operating at Fraunhofer Wavelengths....Pages 407-408
Development of an Optically Pumped Polarized Deuterium Target....Pages 409-410
Diagnostics of a Cooling Electron Beam by Thomson Scattering of Laser Light....Pages 411-412
Front Matter....Pages 413-414
Diode Pumped Solid-State Laser Oscillators for Spectroscopic Applications....Pages 415-415
Spectroscopy of the 3 μ m Laser Transitions in YAlO 3 :Er....Pages 416-419
Fibre Lasers....Pages 420-421
Recent Developments in Nonlinear Optical Materials....Pages 422-425
Single-Mode Operation of Pulsed Dye Lasers....Pages 426-429
Recent Progress in Semiconductor Lasers....Pages 430-431
Spectroscopy with Ultrashort Electrical Pulses....Pages 432-433
Front Matter....Pages 434-437
Generation and Application of Coherent Tunable VUV Radiation at 60 to 200 nm....Pages 438-443
Third-Harmonic Generation in Both Positively and Negatively Dispersive Xe....Pages 445-445
Laser Depletion Spectroscopy of Core-Excited Levels....Pages 446-454
Laser Spectroscopy of Atoms and Molecules Below 100 nm....Pages 455-457
Internal State Selected Population and Velocity Distribution of Hydrogen Desorbing from Pd(100)....Pages 458-461
Laser Spectroscopy of the Diamagnetic Hydrogen Atom in the Chaotic Regime....Pages 462-463
Back Matter....Pages 464-465
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