Atomic and laser spectroscopy - Hardcover

Corney, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198511388 ISBN 13: 9780198511380

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1977

Synopsis

Intended mainly for experimentalists, this book discusses in detail the many advances in optical physics made over the last 25 years. The author uses classical or semi-classical calculations wherever possible to introduce the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with free atoms. Topics discussed include the spontaneous emission of radiation; stimulated transitions and the properties of gas and tunable dye lasers; and the physics and applications of resonance fluorescence, optical double resonance, optical pumping, and atomic beam magnetic resonance experiments. Favorably reviewed in its hardcover edition, physicists from a variety of fields will find this reissue as timely now as it was when first published in 1977.

About this title

About the Author:

Alan Corney is retired from Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford.

Review:

"The academic worth of this book is already well established...the book certainly offers substantial added value to the novice. The book is a handy reference for all."

--The Higher Education Academy December 2009

"Corney's book has much to offer."

--Physics Today

"The book will be of great value: to undergraduates, to beginning graduate students, even to atomic theorists."

--Nature

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0198511388
• ISBN 13: 9780198511380
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 763