Atomic and Laser Spectroscopy

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OUP Oxford, 05.10.2006 - 763 Seiten
This book discusses many advances in optical physic, and is aimed at advanced undergraduates taking courses in atomic physics, or graduate students in the fields of lasers, astrophysics, and physical chemistry. The book is intended mainly for experimentalists, and the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with free atoms is introduced using classical or semi-classical calculations wherever possible. Topics discussed include the spontaneous emission of radiation, stimulatedtransitions and the properties of gas and turnable dye lasers, and the physics and applications of resonance fluorescence, optical double resonance, optical pumping, and atomic beam magnetic resonance experiments.
 

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1 INTRODUCTION
1
2 REVIEW OF CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS
17
3 REVIEW OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
52
4 THE SPONTANEOUS EMISSION OF RADIATION
93
5 SELECTION RULES FOR ELECTRIC DIPOLE TRANSITIONS
120
6 MEASUREMENT OF RADIATIVE LIFETIMES OF ATOMS AND MOLECULES
142
7 FORBIDDEN TRANSITIONS AND METASTABLE ATOMS
178
8 THE WIDTH AND SHAPE OF SPECTRAL LINES
229
12 RESONANT MODES OF OPTICAL CAVITIES
355
13 SATURATION CHARACTERISTICS AND SINGLEFREQUENCY OPERATION OF GAS LASERS
377
14 TUNABLE DYE LASERS AND ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY
439
15 THE HANLE EFFECT AND THE THEORY OF RESONANCE FLUORESCENCE EXPERIMENTS
473
16 OPTICAL DOUBLE RESONANCE EXPERIMENTS
534
17 OPTICAL PUMPING EXPERIMENTS
592
18 THE HYPERFINE STRUCTURE OF ATOMS AND ITS INVESTIGATION BY MAGNETIC RESONANCE METHODS
661
TABLE OF FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS
742

9 THE ABSORPTION AND STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION
271
10 RADIATIVE TRANSFER AND THE FORMATION OF SPECTRAL LINES
289
11 POPULATION INVERSION MECHANISMS IN GAS LASERS
319

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Alan Corney is retired from Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford.

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