Frontiers of Laser Spectroscopy of Gases

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Spectroscopy without Lasers

   • D. A. Ramsay

   Pages 1-8

3. Infrared Lasers for Spectroscopy

   • Wolfgang Urban

   Pages 9-42

4. Tunable Far Infrared Laser Spectroscopy

   • K. M. Evenson, D. A. Jennings, M. D. Vanek

   Pages 43-51

5. Generation of Coherent Tunable Radiation

   • R. Wallenstein

   Pages 53-61

6. Tunable Coherent Sources for Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy

   • B. P. Stoicheff

   Pages 63-88

7. The Free Electron Laser, Offspring of Synchrotron Radiation

   • Sydney Leach

   Pages 89-152

8. Laser Doppler-Free Techniques in Spectroscopy

   • B. Cagnac

   Pages 153-185

9. Atomic Laser Spectroscopy

   • P. E. G. Baird

   Pages 187-239

10. Laser Raman Spectroscopy

    • L. D. Barron

    Pages 241-280

11. Techniques in Molecular Laser Spectroscopy

    • R. N. Dixon

    Pages 281-307

12. Multiphoton Ionization Spectroscopy with Photoelectron and Mass Spectral Analysis

    • Steven D. Colson

    Pages 309-324

13. Multiphoton Ionization Mass Spectrometry of Biomolecules

    • J. Grotemeyer, E. W. Schlag

    Pages 325-344

14. Unimolecular Decay of Energy-Selected Polyatomic Molecular Ions by Resonance-Enhanced Multiphoton Ionization in a Reflectron Mass Spectrometer

    • A. Kiermeier, H. Kühlewind, H. J. Neusser, E. W. Schlag

    Pages 345-352

15. Infrared Spectroscopy of Molecular Ions

    • Takeshi Oka

    Pages 353-377

16. Dynamics of the Photodissociation of Small Molecules

    • Peter Andresen

    Pages 379-419

17. Laser Spectroscopy of Chemical Intermediates in Supersonic Free Jet Expansions

    • Stephen C. Foster, Richard A. Kennedy, Terry A. Miller

    Pages 421-449

18. The Infrared Spectroscopy of the H3 + and HD+ Molecular Ions at their Dissociation Limits

    • Alan Carrington, Iain R. McNab, Christine A. Montgomerie

    Pages 451-460

19. The Interpretation of Vibrational Overtone Spectra Observed by Fourier Transform and Laser Photoacoustic Spectroscopy

    • I. M. Mills

    Pages 461-489

20. Interstellar Masers and Star Formation in the Galaxy

    • Gisbert Winnewisser

    Pages 491-508

This volume contains the lectures presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Frontiers of Laser Spectroscopy of Gases" held in the Hotel Golf Mar, Vimeiro, near Torres Vedras, Portugal from 30 March to 10 April 1987. The objective of the meeting was to take stock of the recent technological developments involving lasers and to assess their impact on spectroscopy. The whole range of wavelengths from the far infrared through to the extreme ultraviolet was covered. In addition, specific applications to both atoms and molecules were described. Indeed, one of the most successful and pleasant aspects of the Institute was the joint participation of atomic physicists and molecular spectro­ scopists, who meet all too rarely these days. The Institute also succeeded in covering a wide time span from the very earliest days of lasers to some of the very latest developments in both lasers and their applications to spectroscopy. There were 14 invited lecturers, giving a total of 40 lectures, and 89 other participants at the Institute. Each of the invited lecturers has contributed a chapter to this volume. In addition, on Thursday 2nd April a special one-day session was held in the Chemistry Department at the University of Coimbra to mark the retirement of Professor Dr. F.

• Absorption
• Laser
• Maser
• Optical rotation
• Raman spectroscopy
• laser spectroscopy
• spectroscopy

• University of Coimbra, Portugal

  Antonio C. P. Alves

• University of Oxford, UK

  John M. Brown

• University of Reading, UK

  J. Michael Hollas

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