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OverviewLasers are employed throughout science and technology, in fundamental research, the remote sensing of atmospheric gases or pollutants, communications, medical diagnostics and therapies, and the manufacturing of microelectronic devices. Understanding the principles of their operation, which underlie all of these areas, is essential for a modern scientific education. This text introduces the characteristics and operation of lasers through laboratory experiments designed for the undergraduate curricula in Chemistry and Physics. Introductory chapters describe the properties of light, the history of laser invention, the atomic, molecular and optical principles behind how lasers work, and the kinds of lasers available today. Other chapters include the basic theory of spectroscopy and computational chemistry used to interpret laser experiments. Experiments range from simple in-class demonstrations to more elaborate configurations for advanced students. Each chapter has historical and theoretical background, as well as options suggested for variations on the prescribed experiments. The text will be useful for undergraduates students in advanced lab classes, for instructors designing these classes, or for graduate students beginning a career in laser science. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert N. Compton (Professor of Chemistry and Physics, Professor of Chemistry and Physics, Dept Chemistry, University of Tennessee) , Michael A. Duncan (Franklin Professor and Regents' Professor, Franklin Professor and Regents' Professor, Dept of Chemistry, University of Georgia)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 19.10cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.60cm Weight: 0.870kg ISBN: 9780198742982ISBN 10: 0198742983 Pages: 414 Publication Date: 12 November 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: 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: Optical Rotary Dispersion of a Chiral Liquid (?-pinene) 21: Faraday Rotation 22: Fermi Resonance in CO2 23: Photoacoustic Spectroscopy of Methane 24: Optogalvanic Spectroscopy 25: Diode Laser Atomic Spectroscopy 26: Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy using THG in Rare Gases 27: Raman Shifting and Stimulated Electronic Raman Scattering (SERS) 28: Fluorescence Lifetime of Iodine Vapor 29: Raman Spectroscopy Applied to Molecular Conformational Analysis 30: Diffraction of Light from Blood Cells 31: Inversion of Sucrose by Acid Catalyzed Hydrolysis Appendix I. Recommended Components and Equipment Appendix II. Fast Signal MeasurementsReviewsa high-quality and useful book ... instructors and students specially focused in the fields of physical chemistry and spectroscopy will most likely find the highest interest; however, readers interested in broader areas of chemistry and physics should also find this work very useful. If you belong to this potential audience, the purchase of Laser Experiments for Chemistry and Physics will doubtless be a good investment. Germano Montemezzani, Journal of Applied Crystallography a high-quality and useful book ... instructors and students specially focused in the fields of physical chemistry and spectroscopy will most likely find the highest interest; however, readers interested in broader areas of chemistry and physics should also find this work very useful. If you belong to this potential audience, the purchase of Laser Experiments for Chemistry and Physics will doubtless be a good investment. * Germano Montemezzani, Journal of Applied Crystallography * Laser Experiments for Chemistry and Physics is a file resource for experienced physics instructors looking to set up new experiments in advanced lab courses. Compton and Duncan provide both guidance and inspiration in their outstanding collection of laser experiments. * Jason Stalnaker, Physics Today * Author InformationRobert N. Compton was born in Metropolis, IL. The Compton family moved to Oak Ridge, TN during WWII where his father worked on the Manhattan Project. He 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 has been a Professor of Physics and Chemistry at the University of Tennessee to the present date. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Aarhus, University of Paris, and the FOM Institute in Amsterdam. In 2001, he was an Erskine Fellow at the University of Christchurch, New Zealand. His research interests include negative ions, laser spectroscopy, and molecular chirality. Michael A. Duncan was born in Greenville, SC, where he attended Furman University (B.S. 1976). In graduate school at Rice University he worked with Prof. Richard E. Smalley (Ph.D. 1982). He was a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) in Boulder, CO with Prof. Stephen Leone. He joined the University of Georgia faculty in 1983. He uses laser vaporization, molecular beams, mass spectrometry and laser spectroscopy to study metal clusters, ion-molecule complexes and carbocations. Duncan is Fellow of the American Physical Society (2001) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2004), and Senior Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry since 1998. He is recipient (2007) of an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin and won the Experimental Physical Chemistry Award (2011) given by the American Chemical Society. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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