Methods of Laser Spectroscopy

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
New Theoretical Tools for Single Atom Laser Spectroscopy....Pages 1-10
The One-Atom Maser and Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics....Pages 11-23
Rydberg Atoms and Radiation....Pages 25-32
Laser Cooling and Magnetic Trapping of Neutral Atoms....Pages 33-40
Cooling and Trapping of Atoms with Laser Light....Pages 41-49
Investigation of Nonthermal Population Distributions with Femtosecond Optical Pulses....Pages 51-54
Intra- and Intermolecular Energy Transfer of Large Molecules in Solution after Picosecond Excitation....Pages 55-61
New Techniques of Time-Resolved Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy Using Ultrashort Laser Pulses....Pages 63-73
Nonlinear Transient Spectroscopy with Ultrahigh Time-Resolution Using Light Sources with Controlled Coherence....Pages 75-85
Picosecond Modulation Spectroscopy in Sodium Vapor....Pages 87-95
Modulated Pumping in Cs with Picosecond Pulse Trains....Pages 97-100
Polarization Selective Detection of Hyperfine Quantum Beats in Cs....Pages 101-104
Observation of 517 Ghz Fine Structure Quantum-Beats in Na....Pages 105-108
Measurement of First-Order Free-Induction-Decay in Cs....Pages 109-112
Dynamics of Geminate Recombination in Excited State Proton Transfer Reactions....Pages 113-116
Optical Properties and Applications of Reverse Saturable Absorbers....Pages 117-121
Extracavity Pulse Compressor and Intracavity Mode-Locking with Saturable and Reverse Saturable Absorbers....Pages 123-127
Picosecond Photodynamics of the Excited States of Organic Compounds in Solution Using Time Resolved Spectroscopy....Pages 129-132
Spectral Linewidth of Semiconductor Lasers....Pages 133-142
Spectral and Dynamic Features of Quantum Well Semiconductor Lasers....Pages 143-150
Programmable, Secondary Frequency Standards Based Infrared Synthesizers for High Resolution Spectroscopy....Pages 151-161
The Hydrogen Atom in a New Light....Pages 163-173
Raman Heterodyne Spectroscopy of Hertzian Resonances....Pages 175-185
Laser Frequency Division and Stabilization....Pages 187-190
High Resolution Spectroscopy of Alkaline Earth Monohalides: Perturbation Analysis, Hyperfine Structure and Stark Effect....Pages 191-200
Pressure Broadening of Hyperfine Multiplets....Pages 201-204
Modified Optical Bloch Equations for Solids....Pages 205-208
Cars Spectroscopy of Transient Species....Pages 209-222
Engineering Cars for Combustion Diagnostic Applications....Pages 223-238
Coherent Control of Direct and Resonant Unimolecular Reactions....Pages 239-247
Stimulated Raman Scattering, Phase Modulation, and Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering from Single Micrometer-Size Liquid Droplets....Pages 249-258
A Few Recent Experiments on Surface Studies by Second Harmonic Generation....Pages 259-266
Spin-Spin Cross-Relaxation of Optically-Excited Rare-Earth Ions in Crystals....Pages 267-276
Nonlinear Optics in Resonant Gas Media : Four-Wave Mixing and Higher-Order Processes....Pages 277-287
Exact Semiclassical Solution for Four-Wave Mixing....Pages 289-293
Stochastic Fluctuations Induced Extra Resonances....Pages 295-299
Extraresonances in Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing Induced by Sequential Decay....Pages 301-305
The Extraresonant Origin of Gain Due to Stimulated Rayleigh Scattering....Pages 307-312
Shapes and Widths of Stark Resonances in Sodium....Pages 313-316
Off Resonant Laser Induced Ring Emission....Pages 317-320
Laser Induced Coherent Blue-Shifted Emission Near D 1 Transition of Sodium....Pages 321-324
Laser Induced Stimulated Emission from Sodium Vapor....Pages 325-329
Cars Studies of Nonadiabatic Collision Processes....Pages 331-334
Optical Bistability of Molecular Systems....Pages 335-339
Electromagnetic Field Interaction with Fast-Moving Dipoles....Pages 341-345
Generation and Importance of Linked and Irreducible Moment Diagrams in the Recursive Residue Generation Method....Pages 347-351
Laser Stimulation and Observation of Elementary Reactions in the Gas Phase....Pages 353-366
UV Laser Ionization Spectroscopy and Ion Photochemistry....Pages 367-378
Surface Effects in Vibrationally Excited Molecular Beam Scattering....Pages 379-388
The Cs(7P)+H 2 Photochemical Reaction....Pages 389-398
Time Resolved Spectroscopy of Jet-Cooled Acetone....Pages 399-405
Experimental Determination of the ClO 2 - Ã( 2 A 2 ) (0,0,0) Predissociation Lifetime....Pages 407-410
Laser Spectroscopy of Proton-Transfer in Microsolvent Clusters....Pages 411-415
Giant Intensity IR-Active Vibrations Photoinduced in Conducting Polymers....Pages 417-420
Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer in Supersonic Jets....Pages 421-424
Angular Momentum-Velocity Correlation of OCS Photodissociation Products....Pages 425-428
Vibrational-Energy Redistribution in Highly Excited Molecules....Pages 429-433
Recent Advances in Intramolecular Electronic Energy Transfer....Pages 435-438
Time-Resolved Photofragment Fluorescence as a Probe of Laser-Pulse Molecular Dissociation....Pages 439-442
Coverage Effect on the Work Function of a Metal Films Covered with Organized Organic Spacer....Pages 443-448
Photoionization and Dissociation of the H 2 Molecule Near the Ionization Threshold....Pages 449-451
Photodissociation Dynamics of Tert-Butyl-Nitrite....Pages 453-456
Three Photon Spectroscopy of the Lowest Rydberg- and Valence States of the Chlorine Molecule....Pages 457-461
Unexpected Results on NO 2 and an Unconventional Explanation....Pages 463-468
Back Matter....Pages 469-472
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