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Kluwer Academic Methods Of Laser Spectroscopy International Symposium Papers 1986 Edition by Yehiam Prior Abraham Ben-reuven Michael Rosenbluh
The Fritz Haber Symposium on Methods of Laser Spectroscopy was held in Ein Bokek Israel on the shores of the Dead Sea on December 16-20 1985. The location is the lowest place on earth 392 meters below sea level. It was hoped that 120 active laser scientists so lowly trapped in such a place with the nearest entertainment 100 km away will have no choice but to discuss laser spectroscopy. On the average the Dead Sea area receives 3-4 days of rain each year and this year these days all occurred during the conference. This did not mean the cancellation of the hikes although the trip to Massada was conducted in the rain. The unexpected rains also caused flash floods in the area and Ein Bokek was completely cut-off on Thursday night. The archeologist scheduled to speak after dinner and the belly dancer scheduled to appear afterwards (~ould not arrive resulting in the only serious deviation from the original plan. The scientific program consisted of invited talks and contributed posters.The emphasis in selection of invited speakers and topics was on the methods rather than specific molecular systems and an attempt was made to allow ample time for discussion after each lecture. The same philosophy guided us in editing this book and authors were requested to write manuscripts longer than usual for standard conference proceedings. Table of contents : Few-Atom Laser Interactions.- New Theoretical Tools for Single Atom Laser Spectroscopy.- The One-Atom Maser and Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics.- Rydberg Atoms and Radiation.- Laser Cooling and Magnetic Trapping of Neutral Atoms.- Cooling and Trapping of Atoms with Laser Light.- Time-Resolved Spectroscopy.- Investigation of Nonthermal Population Distributions with Femtosecond Optical Pulses.- Intra- and Intermolecular Energy Transfer of Large Molecules in Solution After Picosecond Excitation.- New Techniques of Time-Resolved Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy Using Ultrashort Laser Pulses.- Nonlinear Transient Spectroscopy with Ultrahigh Time-Resolution Using Light Sources With Controlled Coherence.- Picosecond Modulation Spectroscopy in Sodium Vapor.- Modulated Pumping in Cs With Picosecond Pulse Trains.- Polarization Selective Detection of Hyperfine Quantum Beats in Cs.- Observation of 517 GHz Fine Structure Quantum-Beats in Na.- Measurement of First-Order Free-induction-decay in Cs.- Dynamics of Geminate Recombination in Excited State Proton Transfer Reactions.- Optical Properties and Applications of Reverse Saturable Absorbers.- Extracavity Pulse Compressor and Intracavity Mode-Locking with Saturable and Reverse Saturable Absorbers.- Picosecond Photodynamics of the Excited States of Organic Compounds in Solution Using Time Resolved Spectroscopy.- Stable Lasers and High Resolution Spectroscopy.- Spectral Linewidth of Semiconductor Lasers.- Spectral and Dynamic Features of Quantum Well Semiconductor Lasers.- Programmable Secondary Frequency Standards Based Infrared Synthesizers for High Resolution Spectroscopy.- The Hydrogen Atom in a New Light.- Raman Heterodyne Spectroscopy of Hertzian Resonances.- Laser Frequency Division and Stabilization.- High Resolution Spectroscopy of Alkaline Earth Monohalides: Perturbation Analysis Hyperfine Structure and Stark Effect.- Pressure Broadening of Hyperfine Multiplets.- Nonlinear Optics and Coherent Phenomena.- Modified Optical Bloch Equations for Solids.- CARS Spectroscopy of Transient Species.- Engineering CARS for Combustion Diagnostic Applications.- Coherent Control of Direct and Resonant Unimolecular Reactions.- Stimulated Raman Scattering Phase Modulation and Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering From Single Micrometer-Size Liquid Droplets.- A Few Recent Experiments on Surface Studies by Second Harmonic Generation.- Spin-Spin Cross-Relaxation of Optically-Excited Rare-Earth Ions in Crystals.- Nonlinear Optics in Resonant Gas Media: Four-Wave Mixing and Higher-Order Processes.- Exact Semiclassical Solution for Four-Wave Mixing.- Stochastic Fluctuations Induced Extra Resonances.- Extra Resonances in Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing Induced by Sequential Decay.- The Extra resonant Origin of Gain Due to Stimulated Rayleigh Scattering.- Shapes and Widths of Stark Resonances in Sodium.- Off Resonant Laser Induced Ring Emission.- Laser Induced Coherent Blue-Shifted Emission Near D1 Transition of Sodium.- Laser Induced Stimulated Emission from Sodium Vapor.- CARS Studies of Nonadiabatic Collision Processes.- Optical Bistability of Molecular Systems.- Electromagnetic Field Interaction with Fast-Moving Dipoles.- Generation and Importance of Linked and Irreducible Moment Diagrams in the Recursive Residue Generation Method.- Laser-Molecule Interactions.- Laser Stimulation and Observation of Elementary Reactions in the Gas Phase.- UV Laser Ionization Spectroscopy and Ion Photochemistry.- Surface Effects in Vibrationally Excited Molecular Beam Scattering.- Perturbation Facilitated OODR Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy of the a3?u+ State of Li2 and Na2.- The Cs(7P)+H2 Photochemical Reaction.- Time Resolved Spectroscopy of Jet-Cooled Acetone.- Experimental Determination of the ClO2-A(2A2)(000) Predissociation Lifetime.- Laser Spectroscopy of Proton-Transfer in Microsolvent Clusters.- Giant Intensity IR-Active Vibrations Photoinduced in Conducting Polymers.- Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer in Supersonic Jets.- Angular Momentum-Velocity Correlation of OCS Photodissociation Products.- Vibrational-Energy Redistribution in Highly Excited Molecules.- Recent Advances in Intramolecular Electronic Energy Transfer.- Time-Resolved Photofragment Fluorescence as a Probe of Laser-Pulse Molecular Dissociation.- Coverage Effect on the Work Function of a Metal Films Covered with Organized Organic Spacer.- Photoionization and Dissociation of the H2 Molecule near the Ionization Threshold.- Photodissociation Dynamics of Tert-Butyl-Nitrite.- Three Photon Spectroscopy of the Lowest Rydberg- and Valence States of the Chlorine Molecule.- Unexpected Results on NO2 and an Unconventional Explanation.- Participants.- Photograph.