Laser Spectroscopy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Chairman’s Opening Remarks

   1. Chairman’s Opening Remarks

      • B. P. Stoicheff

      Pages 1-3

3. Spectroscopy I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Introductory Remarks

      • G. Herzberg

      Pages 7-9

   3. Extension of Microwave Detection and Frequency Measuring Techniques into the Optical Region

      • A. Javan, A. Sanchez

      Pages 11-28

   4. Infrared-Microwave Double Resonance

      • Koichi Shimoda

      Pages 29-44

   5. Non-Linear Effects and Coherence Phenomena in Optical Pumping

      • C. Cohen-Tannoudji

      Pages 45-55

4. Tunable Lasers I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. Generation of Ultraviolet and Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiation

      • S. E. Harris, J. F. Young, A. H. Kung, D. M. Bloom, G. C. Bjorklund

      Pages 59-75

   3. Parametric Oscillators

      • Robert L. Byer

      Pages 77-101

   4. A Tunable Infrared Coherent Source for the 2 to 25 Micron Region and Beyond

      • James J. Wynne, Peter P. Sorokin, J. R. Lankard

      Pages 103-111

   5. Oscillation on the Ultraviolet Bound-Free Continua of Diatomic Molecular Xenon and Molecular Krypton

      • C. K. Rhodes, P. W. Hoff

      Pages 113-122

5. Spectroscopy II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. Ultrahigh Resolution Saturated Absorption Spectroscopy

      • Ch. Borde, J. L. Hall

      Pages 125-142

   3. Speed of Light from Direct Laser Frequency and Wavelength Measurements: Emergence of a Laser Standard of Length

      • K. M. Evenson, F. R. Petersen, J. S. Wells

      Pages 143-156

   4. High Resolution Spectroscopy with Tunable Dye Lasers

      • Herbert Walther

      Pages 157-169

   5. Precision Heterodyne Calibration

      • C. Freed, D. L. Spears, R. G. O’Donnell, A. H. M. Ross

      Pages 171-191

   6. Absorption Spectroscopy from Selectively Excited Atomic Singlet Levels

      • D. J. Bradley, P. Ewart, J. V. Nicholas, J. R. D. Shaw

      Pages 193-204

   7. Spectroscopy of Highly Excited Levels in Alkali Atoms using a CW Tunable Dye Laser

      • S. Svanberg

      Pages 205-219

6. Tunable Lasers II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221

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The Laser Spectroscopy Conference held at Vail, Colorado, June 25-29, 1973 was in certain ways the first meeting of its kind. Var­ ious quantum electronics conferences in the past have covered non­ linear optics, coherence theory, lasers and masers, breakdown, light scattering and so on. However, at Vail only two major themes were developed - tunable laser sources and the use of lasers in spectro­ scopic measurements, especially those involving high precision. Even so, Laser Spectroscopy covers a broad range of topics, making possible entirely new investigations and in older ones orders of magnitude improvement in resolution. The conference was interdisciplinary and international in char­ acter with scientists representing Japan, Italy, West Germany, Canada, Israel, France, England, and the United States. Of the 150 participants, the majority were physicists and electrical engineers in quantum electronics and the remainder, physical chemists and astrophysicists. We regret, because of space limitations, about 100 requests to attend had to be refused.

• coherence
• electronics
• experiment
• hyperfine
• infrared spectroscopy
• laser
• liquid
• optics
• scattering
• spectroscopy

• IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, USA

  Richard G. Brewer

• Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, USA

  Aram Mooradian

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