Chapter 1. Introduction: Introduce the outline of the course
Chapter 2. Absorption and Emission of Light: Cavity Modes; Thermal Radiation and Plancks Law; Absorption,
Induced, and Spontaneous Emission; Basic Photometric Quantities; Polarization of Light; Absorption and Emission
Spectra; Transition Probabilities; Coherence Properties of Radiation Fields
Chapter 3. Spectroscopic Instrumentation: Spectrographs and Monochromators; Interferometers; Comparison
Between Spectrometers and Interferometers; Accurate Wavelength Measurements; Detection of Light;
Chapter 4. Lasers as Spectroscopic Light Sources: Fundamentals of Lasers; Laser Resonators; Spectral
Characteristics of Laser Emission; Experimental Realization of Single-Mode Lasers; Controlled Wavelength Tuning of
Single-Mode Lasers; Linewidths of Single-Mode Lasers; Tunable Lasers; Nonlinear Optical Mixing Techniques;
Gaussian Beams
Chapter 5. Nonlinear Spectroscopy: Linear and Nonlinear Absorption; Saturation of Inhomogeneous Line Profiles;
Saturation Spectroscopy; Polarization Spectroscopy; Multiphoton Spectroscopy; Special Techniques of Nonlinear
Spectroscopy
Chapter 6. Laser Raman Spectroscopy: Basic Considerations; Experimental Techniques of Linear Laser Raman
Spectroscopy; Nonlinear Raman Spectroscopy; Special Techniques; Applications of Laser Raman Spectroscopy
Chapter 7. Time-Resolved Laser Spectroscopy: Generation of Short Laser Pulses; Measurement of Ultrashort Pulses;
Lifetime Measurement with Lasers; Pump-and-Probe Technique
Chapter 8. Coherent Spectroscopy: Level-Crossing Spectroscopy; Quantum-Beat Spectroscopy; Excitation and
Detection of Wave Packets in Atoms and Molecules; Optical Pulse-Train Interference Spectroscopy; Photon Echoes;
Optical Nutation and Free-Induction Decay; Heterodyne Spectroscopy; Correlation Spectroscopy
Chapter 9. Laser Spectroscopy of Collision Processes: High-Resolution Laser Spectroscopy of Collisional Line
Broadening and Line Shifts; Measurements of Inelastic Collision Cross Sections of Excited Atoms and Molecules;
Spectroscopic Techniques for Measuring Collision-Induced Transitions in the Electronic Ground State of Molecules;
Spectroscopy of Reactive Collisions; Spectroscopic Determination of Differential Collision Cross Sections in Crossed
Molecular Beams; Photon-Assisted Collisional Energy Transfer; Photoassociation Spectroscopy of Colliding Atoms
Chapter 10. New Developments in Laser Spectroscopy: Optical Cooling and Trapping of Atoms; Spectroscopy of
Single Ions; Optical Ramsey-Fringes; Atom Interferometry; The One-Atom Maser; Spectral Resolution Within the Natural
Linewidth; Absolute optical Frequency Measurement and Optical Frequency Standards; Squeezing
Chapter 11. Applications of Laser Spectroscopy: Applications in Chemistry; Environmental Research with Lasers;
Applications to Technical Problems; Applications in Biology; Medical Applications of Laser Spectroscopy
指定教材:德姆特勒德,激光光谱学,第三版,世界图书出版公司,2008
推 荐 参 考 资 料 : Sune Svanberg, Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy: Basic Aspects and Practical Applications,
Springer-Verlag, 2003
Textbook: Demtroder W., Laser Spectroscopy: Basic concepts and Instrumentation, 3
rd
Ed. Springer-Verlag, 1982
Supplementary Readings: Sune Svanberg, Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy: Basic Aspects and Practical
Applications, Springer-Verlag, 2003