Lasers in Chemical Analysis

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Lasers and Laser Optics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Laser Fundamentals

      • Fred E. Lytle

      Pages 3-39

   3. Tunable Laser Systems

      • M. J. Wirth

      Pages 41-57

   4. Pulsed Laser Systems

      • Joel M. Harris

      Pages 59-76

   5. Nonlinear Optics

      • John C. Wright

      Pages 77-90

3. Methods Based on Absorption of Laser Radiation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. The Optogalvanic Effect

      • John C. Travis, James R. DeVoe

      Pages 93-124

   3. Potential Analytical Aspects of Laser Multiphoton Ionization Mass Spectrometry

      • D. A. Lichtin, L. Zandee, R. B. Bernstein

      Pages 125-141

   4. Analytical Aspects of Thermal Lensing Spectroscopy

      • Robert L. Swofford

      Pages 143-156

4. Methods Based on Laser-Induced Fluorescence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Laser-Excited Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometry

      • Stephan J. Weeks, James D. Winefordner

      Pages 159-183

   3. Laser-Excited Fluorescence Spectroscopy

      • John C. Wright

      Pages 185-200

   4. Laser-Excited Matrix-Isolation Molecular Fluorescence Spectrometry

      • E. L. Wehry, Randy R. Gore, Richard B. Dickinson Jr.

      Pages 201-224

   5. Laser-Induced Fluorimetric Analysis of Drugs in Biological Fluids

      • Norman Strojny, J. Arthur F. deSilva

      Pages 225-236

   6. New Laser-Based Methodologies for the Determination of Organic Pollutants via Fluorescence

      • Johnie C. Brown, John M. Hayes, Jonathan A. Warren, Gerald J. Small

      Pages 237-261

   7. Trace Analysis of Nonfluorescent Ions by Association with a Fluorescent Probe in the Solid State

      • M. V. Johnston, J. C. Wright

      Pages 263-270

5. Lasers in Analytical Instrumentation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271

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   2. Laser-Based Detectors for Liquid Chromatography

      • Edward S. Yeung

      Pages 273-290

   3. Lasers and Analytical Polarimetry

      • A. L. Cummings, H. P. Layer, R. J. Hocken

      Pages 291-302

Lasers are relatively recent additions to the analytical scientist's arsenal. Because of this, many analysts-whether their concern is research or some range of applications-are in need of a tutorial introduction not only to the principles of lasers, their optics, and radiation, but also to their already diverse and burgeoning applications. The artic1es presented in this volume, carefully enhanced and edited from lectures prepared for the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry 1979 Summer Symposium, are designed to provide just such a broad introduction to the subject. Thus, in addition to several excellent chapters on laser fundamentals, there are many practically oriented artic1es dealing with laser analytical methodology, inc1uding techniques based on the absorption oflaser radiation, on laser-induced fluorescence, and on some of the uses of lasers in chemical instru­ mentation. The first of these sections is pivotal and reflects in part our philosophy in organizing this collection. The authors of the initial chapters were invited not only because of their expertise in the field of lasers and analytical chemistry, but also because their didactic approach to writing and their c1arity of presentation were well known to us. It is our hope that individual readers with little knowledge of lasers will gain from these introductory chapters sufficient information to render the later, more detailed artic1es both useful and meaningful.

• analytical chemistry
• chemical analysis
• chromatography
• laser
• spectroscopy

• Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

  Gary M. Hieftje

• National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, USA

  John C. Travis

• Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

  Fred E. Lytle

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