A systematic treatment of a wide class of nonlinear spectroscopic techniques which emphasizes the density-matrix approach. Applications to dyes in solutions, atoms and molecules in the gas phase, liquids, and molecular and semiconductor nanostructures are discussed. The book is suitable for graduate students, material scientists, and researchers.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Illustrationen
numerous line figures, bibliography
ISBN-13
978-0-19-509278-3 (9780195092783)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Introduction. 1: Quantum dynamics in Hilbert Space. 2: The density matrix and quantum dyanmics in Liouville Space. 3: Quantum electrodynamics, optical polarization and nonlinear spectroscopy. 4: Nonlinear response functions and optical susceptibilities. 5: The optical response functions of a multilevel system with relaxation. 6: Semiclassical simulation of the optical response functions. 7: The cumulant expansion and the multimode Brownian oscillator. 8: Fluorescence, Spontaneous-Raman and Coherent-Raman spectroscopy. 9: Selective elimination of imhomogeneous broadening; Photon echoes. 10: Resonant gratings, pump-probe and hole burning spectroscopy. 11: Wavepacket dynamics in Liouville Space; The Wigner Representation. 12: Wavepacket analysis of non-impulsive measurements. 13: Off-resonance Raman scattering. 14: Polarization Spectroscopy; Birefringence and dichroism. 15: Nonlinear response of molecular assemblies; the local field. 16: Approximation. 17: Many body and cooperative effects in the nonlinear response
