Laser Spectroscopy

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• INVITED TALKS

• Atomic and molecular spectroscopy

  • Laser spectroscopy of molecules

  • Recent developments in infrared spectroscopy

  • XUV-multiple resonance excitation of long-range states in molecular hydrogen

  • Precision measurement of parity nonconservation in cesium and its implications for nuclear and elementary particle physics

• Precision spectroscopy

  • Cold atom clocks on earth and in space

  • Stabilizing and measuring optical frequencies

  • Hg⁺ optical frequency standard: recent progress

• Quantum optics

  • Information content of an elementary system and the foundations of quantum physics

  • The quantum internet

• Bose-Einstein condensation and atom lasers

  • Bragg spectroscopy and superradiant Rayleigh scattering in a Bose-Einstein condensate

  • Evaporative cooling of an atomic beam

  • From novel magnetic traps to atom lasers

  • Linear and non-linear atom optics with Bose-Einstein condensates

• Quantum optics

  • From trapping states to Fock states in the micromaser

  • Quantum knitting in cavity QED

  • Single atoms observed one by one in a high-finesse optical cavity

• Matter wave optics and interferometry

  • Quantum theory of clocks and of gravitational sensors using atom interferometry

  • Precision atomic gyroscope

• Atomic and molecular spectroscopy

  • Observation of bunching in the fluorescence of single defect centers in diamond

  • Recent progress with the STIRAP method

• Laser cooling and trapping

  • Spectroscopy of atoms and molecules in buffer-gas loaded magnetic traps

  • Raman sideband cooling in an optical lattice

• New sources and tools

  • Single-frequency cw optical parametric oscillators: devices and applications

  • Holography with cold atoms

• Quantum information

  • Decay of quantum superpositions into engineered reservoirs

  • Single ions in Paul traps

  • Quantum optical systems for implementation of quantum information processes

• Nonlinear optics, ultrafast lasers and strong field phenomena

  • Nonlinear optics in space

  • Ultrafast lasers for time-resolved spectroscopy

• Applications of laser spectroscopy

  • Light scattering spectroscopy for early cancer diagnosis

  • The study of individual biomolecules with fluorescence microscopy

• SELECTED POSTERS

• Atomic and molecular spectroscopy

  • Atom-surface van der Waals repulsion

  • H₂⁺ in strong laser fields - resolution of photofragments from different vibrational levels

  • Imaging of spin diffusion in the vapour phase by optical magnetic resonance tomography

• Applications of laser spectroscopy

  • Ring down spectroscopy with a Brewster's angle prism resonator

  • Light force manipulation of group III atoms

• Bose-Einstein condensation and atom lasers

  • Magnetic ‘bouncing’ of a BEC

  • Instabilities of dark solitons and monopoles in Bose-Einstein condensates

  • Bose-Einstein condensation in ⁸⁷Rb using a pyramidal MOT as a source of slow atoms

• Laser cooling and trapping

  • Towards mesoscopic physics with cold atoms

  • Efficient production of ultracold ground-state Potassium molecules

  • Miniaturized wire trap for neutral atoms

  • Evanescent-wave cooling of Cesium atoms at high densities

  • Laser cooling of ortho-positronium

  • Counting cold collisions

  • Lithium and Cesium in a quasi-electrostatic CO₂-laser trap

• Matter wave optics and interferometry

  • Interferences of ultrafast free electron wave packets

  • A magneto-optically recorded mirror for cold atoms

• Precision spectroscopy

  • Towards an Indium single-ion optical frequency standard

  • A precise measurement of the He⁺ 2S Lamb shift

  • Measuring optical frequencies with femtosecond light pulses

  • Accuracy of the optical Ca frequency standard

• New sources and tools

  • Broadband optical comb generation with a frequency modulated parametric oscillator

• Quantum optics

  • Cooperative effects in trapped Strontium ions

  • Radiation pressure effects in a high-finesse optical cavity

  • Interferometrical measurement of the motional state of an ion

  • Motional effects in the fluorescence spectrum of a single Ba⁺ ion

  • Green lasing in microspheres at very low pump powers

  • Blue beam generation via cascade two-photon transitions in Rb vapour

• Quantum information

  • Generation of GHZ type three-atom correlations in a cavity QED experiment

  • Sideband cooling, state control and quantum logic in optical lattices

• AUTHOR INDEX