Subject: Physics Book Title: Atomic and Laser Spectroscopy
Atomic and Laser Spectroscopy
Corney, Alan
, Retired from Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford
Print publication date: 2006
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921145-6
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199211456.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921145-6
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199211456.001.0001
Abstract:
This book gives an account of the progress that has been made in the fields of atomic physics and laser spectroscopy during the last fifty years. The first five chapters prepare the foundations of atomic physics, classical electro-magnetism, and quantum mechanics, which are necessary for an understanding of the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with free atoms. The application of these concepts to processes involving the spontaneous emission of radiation is then developed in Chapters 6, 7, and 8, while stimulated emission and the properties of gas and tunable dye lasers form the subject matter of Chapters 9 to 14. The last four chapters are concerned with the physics and applications of atomic resonance fluorescence, optical double-resonance, optical pumping, and atomic beam magnetic resonance.
Keywords: atomic physics, classical electro-magnetism, quantum mechanics, spontaneous emission, stimulated emission, lasers, resonance fluorescence, optical double-resonance, optical pumping, atomic beam magnetic resonance
Keywords: atomic physics, classical electro-magnetism, quantum mechanics, spontaneous emission, stimulated emission, lasers, resonance fluorescence, optical double-resonance, optical pumping, atomic beam magnetic resonance
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Review of classical electrodynamics
3. Review of quantum mechanics
4. The spontaneous emission of radiation
5. Selection rules for electric dipole transitions
6. Measurement of radiative lifetimes of atoms and molecules
7. Forbidden transitions and metastable atoms
8. The width and shape of spectral lines
9. The absorption and stimulated emission of radiation
10. Radiative transfer and the formation of spectral lines
11. Population inversion mechanisms in gas lasers
12. Resonant modes of optical cavities
13. Saturation characteristics and single-frequency operation of gas lasers
14. Tunable dye lasers and atomic spectroscopy
15. The Hanle effect and the theory of resonance fluorescence experiments
16. Optical double resonance experiments
17. Optical pumping experiments
18. The hyperfine structure of atoms and its investigation by magnetic resonance methods
Appendix
Index
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199211456.001.0001
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