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- New, updated and revised edition of a successful and established text
- Useful as a self-study guide with exercises for each chapter
- Includes boxes explaining special topics
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This textbook offers clear explanations of optical spectroscopic phenomena and shows how spectroscopic techniques are used in modern molecular and cellular biophysics and biochemistry. The topics covered include electronic and vibrational absorption, fluorescence, resonance energy transfer, exciton interactions, circular dichroism, coherence and dephasing, ultrafast pump-probe and photon-echo spectroscopy, single-molecule and fluorescence-correlation spectroscopy, Raman scattering, and multiphoton absorption. This revised and updated edition provides expanded discussions of quantum optics, metal-ligand charge-transfer transitions, entropy changes during photoexcitation, electron transfer from excited molecules, normal-mode calculations, vibrational Stark effects, studies of fast processes by resonance energy transfer in single molecules, and two-dimensional electronic and vibrational spectroscopy.
The explanations are sufficiently thorough and detailed to be useful for researchers and graduate students and advanced undergraduates in chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics. They are based on time-dependent quantum mechanics, but are developed from first principles with a clarity that makes them accessible to readers with little prior training in this field. Extra topics and highlights are featured in special boxes throughout the text. The author also provides helpful exercises for each chapter.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modern Optical Spectroscopy
Book Subtitle: With Exercises and Examples from Biophysics and Biochemistry
Authors: William W. Parson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46777-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50021-7Published: 17 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-46777-0Published: 09 June 2015
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVI, 572
Number of Illustrations: 196 b/w illustrations
Topics: Biochemistry, general, Spectroscopy/Spectrometry, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics