Laser Spectroscopy: Basic Concepts and Instrumentation

Introduction.- Absorption and Emission of Light.- Widths and Profiles of Spectral Lines.- Spectroscopic Instrumentation.- Lasers as Spectroscopic Light Sources.- Doppler-Limited Absorption and Fluorescence Spectroscopy with Lasers.- Nonlinear Spectroscopy.- Laser Raman Spectroscopy.- Laser Spectroscopy in Molecular Beams.- Optical Pumping and Double-Resonance Techniques.- Time-Resolved Laser Spectroscopy.- Coherent Spectroscopy.- Laser Spectroscopy of Collision Processes.- New Developments in Laser Spectroscopy.- Applications of Laser Spectroscopy.- References.- Index.