Laser Spectroscopy
The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:
Preface
Part I. LASER COOLING AND TRAPPING, MECHANICAL EFFECT OF LIGHT
Review on fundamental processes in laser cooling
Nonlinear spectroscopy and laser cooling
Action of strong rectified dipole forces on atoms
Dipole forces in two crossed standing waves with controlled time-phase difference
Laser cooling of stored beams in ASTRID
Laser cooled Mg atoms for spectroscopy and quantum optics
Laser modification of ultracold collisions
Magneto-optical trap for metastable helium
Experimental study of one-dimension sub-Doppler molasse effects
Ramsey resonance in a Zacharias fountain
White light induced drift
Light-induced flows resulting from inelastic collisions
Part II. FUNDAMENTAL MEASUREMENTS, METROLOGY
Precision spectroscopy on trapped ions
Limits on the electron electric dipole moment from atoms
Fundamental physics with optically trapped atoms
Dreams about the next generation of super-stable lasers
Time Fourier super-high resolution spectroscopy
Mid-infrared, fine structure spectroscopy with the single trapped barium ion: observation of the 5d2D3/2 – 5d2D5/2 transition at 12.5 µm
Reduction of the second order Doppler broadening in two-photon atomic beam spectroscopy : A proposal
High resolution spectroscopy of the hydrogen atom
Recent results from an international comparison of iodine cells
Observation of a single cross-over resonance on a supersonic iodine beam
Frequency stabilization of an external mirror He-Ne laser at 543 nm to I2-saturated absorption lines
Two laser beams and a cesium cell for probing Z0 exchange and other high energy processes
Part III. SURFACES, INTERFACES, CONDENSED MATTER, CLUSTERS
Surface vibrational spectroscopy of pure liquids
Observation of van der Waals surface attraction on atomic spectra
Photodissociation and desorption dynamics studied by lasers: two-dimensional imaging of photodesorbed species from surfaces
Desorption on the femtosecond time scale
Magneto-optical effects in the selective reflection from a glass-vapour interface
Evanescent wave spectroscopy of atomic sublevel coherences
Spectroscopy of single molecules in a host crystal
Study of the Bose-Einstein condensation of paraexcitons in Cu2O
Giant Rabi splitting of biexcitons in CuCl
Nonlinear optical proprties of semiconductor-doped glasses
Time-resolved non-steady-state nonreciprocal circular birefringence in hot electron-hole plasma of GaAs
Laser spectroscopy of cluster ions
Production and characterization of fullerenes
Time evolution of the light induced condensation of sodium clusters
Part IV. CAVITY QED, QUANTUM OPTICS
Non-local interference effects of pair photons
Quantum effects in atomic interferometry
Generation of sub-Poissonian light using active control with twin beams
Optical quantum non-demolition measurements in three-level atomic nonlinear systems
Observation of cavity QED effects in a Nd-glass micro-spherical cavity
Dissipative quantum dynamics in cavity quantum electrodynamics
QND measurements and Schrödinger cat states generation in cavity QED
Dressed state lasers: the simplest “lasers without inversion”
Two-photon coincidence counting to measure ultrashort pulse width and squeeze parameter
Interaction of two-level atoms with a quantized cavity field
Detection of squeezing in a cavity-atom system
Electron-photon pairs, an alternative to squeezing for sub-shot noise absorption measurements
Observation of intermode correlation in whispering gallery mode laser with dye doped polystyrene microsphere
Part V. ATOMIC INTERFEROMETRY
Atomic interferometry and laser spectroscopy
Matter wave interferometry with Ca atoms
An atomic fountain atom interferometer
Atomic interferometry with metastable hydrogen atoms
Atom interferometry with mechanical structures
Observation of double-slit interference by ultracold atoms
Part VI. NONLINEAR OPTICS, WAVE MIXING, OPTICAL INSTABILITIES
Optical bistability in quantum well semiconductor cavities
Static and dynamical effects in transverse laser patterns
Stimulated Raman effect on cold cesium atoms
Electromagnetically induced transparency in Sr vapor
Second-harmonic generation with reduced absorption in atomic hydrogen
Coherent population trapping in laser without inversion
Amplified bistability
Conical emission in barium vapour
Dark resonance and sub-coherent time-resolution in optical transient
Unusual line shapes in higher-order dephasing-induced wave mixing
Nonperturbative calculations of high-intensity effects in nonlinear wave-mixing processes
Lineshape of degenerate noncollinear multiwave mixing in Doppler broadened media
Devices based on nonlinear optical mirrors
Propagation effect of coherent optical pulses in dissipative two-level system
Novel non-linear processes in rare gases
Phase conjugation with frequency doubling from visible to UV
Generation of coherent tunable VUV radiation in mercury
Field induced extra resonances in FWM
Dressed-atom model of “laser without inversion” in the double lambda configuration
Part VII. LASER SOURCES
Terawatt laser and high intensity interaction
Diode lasers and spectroscopic applications
Semiconductor lasers for highly coherent optical sweep generator
High resolution spectroscopy using fiber lasers
Frequency stabilization of Nd:YAG lasers
Micro-optics for laser diode beam control
Continuous wave tunable infrared difference frequency generation in AgGaS2
Absolute frequency stabilization of a laser diode by saturated absorption optical feedback
Phase dynamics of a semiconductor laser
Injection locking of 1.26 µm multimode semiconductor lasers
Generation of broadly tunable picosecond pulses
Spectral characteristics of mode locked laser pulses
New developments in autocorrelation measurements of ultrashort pulses
Soliton laser and its applications
Power enhancement of argon ion laser in an external magnetic field
Part VIII. ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY, COLLISIONS
High resolution spectroscopy with a diode laser
Application of extended cavity AIGaAs diode lasers to high resolution and high sensitivity spectroscopy
Resonance fluorescence spectrum in photon-assisted collisions
VCC pedestals in laser saturation spectroscopy
Laser-induced dispersion in a neon three-level system
Heterodyne laser spectroscopy of 7Li+
High resolution IMOGS measurements in heavy elements
An atomic energy level shift in oxygen by a long range ion-atom interaction
The influence of magnetic fields on time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence measurements
Atomic alignment and quantitative analysis of gases
Strong-field effects in saturation spectroscopy of atomic beams
Wavepackets in laser induced level crossings
Non-perturbative radiation theory for two-photon processes
Collinear fast beam laser spectroscopy of the neutron-deficient thallium isotopes
Atomic alignment via linearly polarized optical pumping
Part IX. RYDBERG SPECTROSCOPY, QUANTUM CHAOS
Di-electronic correlation in high angular momentum double-Rydberg atoms
Rubidium Rydberg atoms in strong external fields
Chaotic ionization of atoms in strong fields
Relaxation processes and quantum chaos in molecular spectroscopy
Experimental study of the transition between regular and chaotic regime in the symmetry selected diamagnetic spectra of lithium atoms
Diamagnetism in Rydberg states of helium
Autoionization in a strong magnetic field
Part X. MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY, DIAGNOSTICS
Differential absorption lidar mapping of atmospheric atomic mercury
Coherent laser techniques for combustion analysis: Polarization spectroscopy and resonance CARS
Line intensities of resonant degenerate four-wave mixing in nitric oxide
High resolution measurement of the degenerate four-wave mixing line shape of OH in an H2:O2 flame with saturating intensities
Laser spectroscopy of Zn2 and HgZn excimers
Excitation spectra of CdAr and CdKr molecules in a jet-expansion beam
Laser-rf double resonance measurement of fine and hyperfine structure in 14N+2
Labelling spectroscopy on rare gas hydrides and triatomic hydrogen
Laser spectroscopic study of collision between polar molecules and isotropic perturbers
Saturated absorption spectroscopy of excited nitrogen molecule by a 1.3 µm diode laser with frequency calibration using the internal second harmonics
Bound-free emissions in Na2 and Cs2+F- by e-beam pumping
High resolution, high sensitivity spectroscopy in the 360 to 520 cm-1 range