E-raamat: Laser Spectroscopy

Chairmans 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.