Teaching by: Theofanis Kitsopoulos, Savas Georgiou

Outline:

Text book: Laser Spectroscopy Basic Concepts and Instrumentation, W. Demtröder (Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1982)

1. Absorption and Emission of Light
1. Cavity Modes
2. Basic Photometric Quantities
3. Absorption and Dispersion
4. Transition Probabilities
5. Linear and Non-Linear Absorption
6. Coherence
7. Widths and Profiles of Spectral Lines
2. Spectroscopic Instrumentation
1. Spectrographs and Monochromators
2. Interferometers
3. Wavelengths Measurement
4. Detection of Light
3. Principles of Lasers
1. Basic Elements of a Laser
2. Fixed Frequency and Tunable Lasers
3. Tunable Infrared Lasers
4. Dye Lasers
5. Excimer Lasers
6. Solid State Lasers
7. Non-Linear Optical Mixing Techniques
8. Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO)
9. Short Pulse Lasers
4. Absorption Spectroscopy
1. Excitation Spectroscopy
2. Photoacoustic Spectroscopy
3. Intercavity Absorption
4. Cavity Ring down Spectroscopy
5. Optogalvanic Spectroscopy
6. Ionization Spectroscopy
5. Fluorescence Spectroscopy
1. Molecular Spectroscopy
2. Measurement of Internal State Distribution
3. Spectroscopy of Excited States
4. Double Resonance Methods
5. Multiphoton spectroscopy
6. Time Resolved Spectroscopy
1. Generation of Short Laser Pulses
2. Lifetime Measurements with Lasers
3. Coherent Transients and Pulse Fourier Transform
7. Applications of Laser Spectroscopy
1. Laser Photochemistry
2. Laser Ablation
3. Laser monitoring of atmospheric processes
4. Medical applications of Laser spectroscopy