Teaching Methods: lecture, tutorial, students will choose the related topics to present and discuss during
the lecture.
Innovations: This course will provide students first-hand opportunities to master problem-solving skills with
modern laser spectroscopy. In addition to theoretical teaching, this course will include a variety of modern
laser technology applied to scientific research. This course will not only enable students to master the
relevant knowledge, but also can serve for their graduate research based on these advanced measurement
techniques.
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