Applied Laser Spectroscopy

This volume contains the lectures and seminars presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Applied Laser Spectroscopy" the fourteenth course of the Europhysics School of Quantum Electronics, held under the supervision of the Quantum Electronics Division of the European Physical Society. The Institute was held at Centro "I Cappuccini", San Miniato, Tuscany, Italy, September 3-15,1989. The Europhysics School of Quantum Electronics was started in 1970 with the aim of providing instruction for young researchers and advanced students already engaged in the area of quantum electronics or wishing to switch to this area from a different background. Presently the school is under the direction of Professors F.T. Arecchi and M Inguscio, University of Florence and Prof. H. Walther University of Munich and has the headquarters at the National Institute of Optics (INO), Firenze, Italy. Each time the directors choose a subject of particular interest, alternating fundamental topics with technological ones, and ask colleagues specifically competent in a given area to take the scientific responsibility for that course. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Techniques of Laser Spectroscopy: Their Advantages and Limitations....Pages 1-12 Quantum Effects in Single-Atom and Single-Photon Experiments....Pages 13-30 Chaos and Complexity in Quantum Optics....Pages 31-45 Synchronization of Atomic Quantum Transitions by Light Pulses....Pages 47-54 Amplification of Pulse Responses in Ensembles of Nonlinear Oscillations....Pages 55-62 Narrowband Tunable VUV/XUV Radiation Generated by Third-Order Frequency Mixing of Laser Radiation in Gases....Pages 63-67 Laser and Synchrotron-Based Excitation Sources for Relaxation Studies....Pages 69-99 Optical Parametric Oscillators of Bariumborate and Lithiumborate: New Sources for Powerful Tunable Laser Radiation in the Ultraviolet, Visible and Near Infrared....Pages 101-107 Two-Photon Transitions with Time-Delayed Radiation Pulses....Pages 109-115 Diode Lasers and their Application to Spectroscopy....Pages 117-125 The Co-Overtone Laser a Spectroscopic Source in a Most Interesting Wavelength Region....Pages 127-135 Tunable Sideband Laser Spectroscopy of Atoms and Molecules....Pages 137-140 High Resolution Far Infrared Spectroscopy....Pages 141-148 High-Resolution Laser Spectroscopy in the UV/VUV Spectral Region....Pages 149-166 High Resolution Spectroscopy of Atomic Hydrogen: Measurement of the Rydberg Constant....Pages 167-171 Laser Spectroscopy of Atomic Discharges....Pages 173-187 Infrared Laser Spectroscopy....Pages 189-214 Opto-Thermal Spectroscopy....Pages 215-226 Multiphoton IR Spectroscopy....Pages 227-240 Light Induced Kinetic Effects in Alkali Vapors....Pages 241-248 Anomalous Doppler Broadening in O 2 -Noble Gases Radio-Frequency Discharges....Pages 249-255 The N 2 *-OCS System — Microwave Spectroscopy Measurements of Vibrational Populations: The Perturbed Stationary State....Pages 257-267 Phonon Lifetimes in Molecular Crystals....Pages 269-292 Nonlinear Time Resolved Spectroscopy in Condensed Matter....Pages 293-306 Brillouin Gain Spectroscopy in Glasses and Crystals....Pages 307-312 Coherent Raman Spectroscopy: Techniques and Recent Applications....Pages 313-328 Laser Detection of Very Rare Long—Lived Radioactive Isotopes....Pages 329-338 Nuclear Ground-State Properties from Laser and Mass Spectroscopy....Pages 339-347 Resonance Ionization Mass Spectroscopy for Trace Analysis....Pages 349-363 CARS Spectroscopy and Applications....Pages 365-392 Laser Spectroscopy Applied to Combustion....Pages 393-401 Trace Gas Detection with Infrared Gas Lasers....Pages 403-416 Environmental Monitoring Using Optical Techniques....Pages 417-434 Remote Detection of Atmospheric Pollutants Using Differential Absorption Lidar Techniques....Pages 435-467 Laser Cooling of Atomic Beams and its Application to Frequency Standards....Pages 469-478 Possible Precision Far—Infrared Spectroscopy on Trapped Ions....Pages 479-485 Stable Ammonia Laser for Cooled Single Ion Frequency Standard....Pages 487-490 Frequency Stabilization of Infrared Lasers: The Optogalvanic Effect in CO 2 ....Pages 491-496 Back Matter....Pages 497-499