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Abstract:

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