Laser Spectroscopy

ISBN-13: 9781461345190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 672 str.

Richard Brewer

Opis

The Laser Spectroscopy Conference held at Vail, Colorado, June 25-29, 1973 was in certain ways the first meeting of its kind. Var ious quantum electronics conferences in the past have covered non linear optics, coherence theory, lasers and masers, breakdown, light scattering and so on. However, at Vail only two major themes were developed - tunable laser sources and the use of lasers in spectro scopic measurements, especially those involving high precision. Even so, Laser Spectroscopy covers a broad range of topics, making possible entirely new investigations and in older ones orders of magnitude improvement in resolution. The conference was interdisciplinary and international in char acter with scientists representing Japan, Italy, West Germany, Canada, Israel, France, England, and the United States. Of the 150 participants, the majority were physicists and electrical engineers in quantum electronics and the remainder, physical chemists and astrophysicists. We regret, because of space limitations, about 100 requests to attend had to be refused."

Spis treści

Chairman’s Opening Remarks.- Spectroscopy I.- Introductory Remarks.- Extension of Microwave Detection and Frequency Measuring Techniques into the Optical Region.- Infrared-Microwave Double Resonance.- Non-Linear Effects and Coherence Phenomena in Optical Pumping.- Tunable Lasers I.- Generation of Ultraviolet and Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiation.- Parametric Oscillators.- A Tunable Infrared Coherent Source for the 2 to 25 Micron Region and Beyond.- Oscillation on the Ultraviolet Bound-Free Continua of Diatomic Molecular Xenon and Molecular Krypton.- Ultrahigh Resolution Saturated Absorption Spectroscopy.- Speed of Light from Direct Laser Frequency and Wavelength Measurements: Emergence of a Laser Standard of Length.- High Resolution Spectroscopy with Tunable Dye Lasers.- Precision Heterodyne Calibration.- Absorption Spectroscopy from Selectively Excited Atomic Singlet Levels.- Spectroscopy of Highly Excited Levels in Alkali Atoms Using a CW Tunable Dye Laser.- Tunable Lasers II.- High Resolution Tunable Infrared Lasers.- Advances in Tunable Lead-Salt Semiconductor Lasers.- High Pressure Waveguide Gas Lasers.- Wideband Waveguide CO2 Lasers.- Frequency Stabilization of a CW Dye Laser.- Coherent Transient Effects.- Coherent Transient Study of Velocity-Changing Collisions.- Theory of Coherent Transients.- Pulsed Microwave Rotational Relaxation Studies.- Off-Resonance Pulse Propagation in a Two-Level System-Distance Dependence of the Carrier Frequency.- Observation of Slow Velocities and Self-Steepening of Optical Pulses Described by Adiabatic Following.- Spectroscopy III.- Saturation Spectroscopy of Atoms.- Molecular Beam Spectroscopy with Argon and Dye Lasers.- Self-Induced Emission in Optically Pumped HF Gas: The Rise and Fall of the Superradiant State.- Infrared-Microwave (Radiofrequency) Two-Photon Spectroscopy.- Observation of Lamb-Dip and Transient Nutation at Microwave Frequency.- Quantum Beat Spectroscopy Using Tunable Pulsed Dye Lasers.- Observation of Superhyperfine Modulation and Quantum Beats in Photon-Echo Spectroscopy in Ruby.- Tunable Lasers III.- Spin-Flip Raman Laser and Applications.- High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy Using Tunable Semiconductor Lasers.- Far Infrared Generation.- Tunable Far-Infrared Generation by Difference-Frequency Mixing in Indium Antimonide.- Kilowatt Spin-Flip Outputs in the 5 µm Region: Application to Chemical Spectroscopy and Resonant Non-Linear Mixing.- Spectroscopy IV.- Laser Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.- Infrared-Microwave Double Resonance Measurements of T1 in Methyl Fluoride and Methyl Chloride.- Accurate Rotational Constants, Frequencies, and Wavelengths from 12C16O2 Lasers Stabilized by Saturated Absorption.- Picosecond Studies of Ultrafast Molecular Processes in Liquids.- Laser Negative Ion Spectroscopy.- Time Evolution of Unimolecular Processes in Isolated Molecules by Crossed Laser and Molecular Beams.- Selective Two-Step Dissociation of Ammonia Molecules.- Quantum Electronic Techniques in Astrophysics: Present Developments and Future Prospects.- Experiments of Astrophysical Significance Using a Laser Strainmeter.- Participants.