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This text will be useful for undergraduate students in advanced lab classes, for instructors designing these classes, or for graduate students beginning a career in laser science.
List of contents
- 1.: Elementary Properties of Light
- 2.: Basic Optics
- 3.: General Characteristics of Lasers
- 4.: Laboratory Lasers
- 5.: Nonlinear Optics
- 6.: Laser Safety
- 7.: The Speed of Light
- 8.: The Speed of Sound in Gases, Liquids, and Solids
- 9.: Thermal Lens Calorimetry
- 10.: Laser Refractometry
- 11.: Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
- 12.: Laser Desorption Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
- 13.: Multiphoton Ionization Mass Spectrometry of Metal Carbonyls
- 14.: Optical Spectroscopy
- 15.: Quantum Chemistry Calculations
- 16.: Multiphoton Ionization and Third Harmonic Generation in Alkali Atoms
- 17.: Electronic Absorption Spectroscopy of Molecular Iodine
- 18.: Electronic Spectroscopy of Iodine Using REMPI
- 19.: Raman Spectroscopy Under Liquid Nitrogen
- 20.: Raman Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanomaterials
- 21.: Optical Rotary Dispersion of a Chiral Liquid (a-pinene)
- 22.: Faraday Rotation
- 23.: Fermi Resonance in CO2
- 24.: Photoacoustic Spectroscopy of Methane
- 25.: Optogalvanic Spectroscopy
- 26.: Diode Laser Atomic Spectroscopy
- 27.: Raman Shifting and Stimulated Electronic Raman Scattering (SERS)
- 28.: Fluorescence Lifetime of Iodine Vapor
- 29.: Semiconductor Quantum Dots
- 30.: Raman Spectroscopy Applied to Molecular Conformational Analysis
- 31.: Diffraction of Light from Blood Cells
- 32.: Laser Induced Crystal Growth
About the author
Robert N. Compton received degrees in physics from Berea College (BA), the University of Florida (MS), and the University of Tennessee (PhD). He was a Senior Corporate Fellow at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1965 to 1995 and was a Professor of Physics and Zeigler Professor of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee until retirement in 2015. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Aarhus, the University of Paris, and the FOM Institute in Amsterdam. In 2001, he was an Erskine Fellow at the University of Christchurch, New Zealand. He was a Fellow of the APS, AAAS, and OSA, and received the Beams Award from the American Physical Society, and the Meggers Award from the Optical Society of America. His research interests include negative ions, laser spectroscopy, and molecular chirality. He has published one other book with Nathan I. Hammer, Ethan C. Lambert, and J. Stewart Hager entitled
Raman Spectroscopy Under Liquid Nitrogen (RUN).Michael A. Duncan was born in Greenville, SC, and attended Furman University (B.S. 1976). He received his Ph.D. (1982) at Rice University with Richard Smalley, working on laser photoionization mass spectrometry. He held an NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (Boulder, CO) with Stephen Leone in 1981-1983. He joined the University of Georgia faculty in 1983 and is now Franklin Professor and Regents' Professor. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was Senior Editor for the
Journal of Physical Chemistry (1998-2015).
Summary
This text will be useful for undergraduate students in advanced lab classes, for instructors designing these classes, or for graduate students beginning a career in laser science.
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