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Modern Optical Spectroscopy

With Exercises and Examples from Biophysics and Biochemistry

  • Textbook
  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. William W. Parson

    1. Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

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  • Student edition now with an exercise section
  • Emphasizes theoretical understanding and draws most of its examples from biophysics and biochemistry
  • Clear, thoroughly illustrated explanations that begin from first principles
  • Text began as lecture notes for a course on optical spectroscopy that the author taught for graduate students in biochemistry and chemistry
  • Extra details and highlights are featured in special boxes throughout the text
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-27

  3. Basic Concepts of Quantum Mechanics

    Pages 29-71

  4. Light

    Pages 73-108

  5. Electronic Absorption

    Pages 109-188

  6. Fluorescence

    Pages 189-240

  7. Vibrational Absorption

    Pages 241-257

  8. Resonance Energy Transfer

    Pages 259-279

  9. Exciton Interactions

    Pages 281-305

  10. Circular Dichroism

    Pages 307-334

  11. Coherence and Dephasing

    Pages 335-376

  12. Pump–Probe Spectroscopy, Photon Echoes, and Vibrational Wavepackets

    Pages 377-415

  13. Raman Scattering and Other Multiphoton Processes

    Pages 417-445

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 447-512
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The student edition of Modern Optical Spectroscopy includes a new set of exercises for each chapter. The exercises and problems generally emphasize basic points, and often include simpli?ed absorption or emission spectra or molecular orbitals that can be evaluated easily with the aid of a calculator or spreadsheet. Students who are adept at computer programming will ?nd it instructive to try to write algorithms that also could be applied to larger, more complicated sets of data. Spectraintroducedinsomeofthe problems forChaps.4and5areusedagain in later chapters to illustrate how quantities calculated from the spectra can be applied to topics such as resonance energy transfer and exciton interactions. Seattle, November, 2008 William W. Parson Preface This book began as lecture notes for a course on optical spectroscopy that I taught for graduate students in biochemistry, chemistry, and our interdisciplinary programs in molecular biophysics and biomolecular structure and design. I startedexpanding the notes partly to try to illuminate the stream of new experimental information on photosynthetic antennas and reaction centers, but mostly just for fun. I hope that readers will ?nd the results not only useful, but also as stimulating as I have.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    William W. Parson

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