1: Elementary Properties of light
2: Basic Optics
3: General Characteristics of Lasers
4: Laboratory Lasers
5: Nonlinear Optics
6: Laser Safety
7: The Speed of Light
8: The Speed of Sound in Gases, Liquids and Solids
9: Thermal Lens Calorimetry
10: Laser Refractometry
11: Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
12: Laser Desorption Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
13: Multiphoton Ionization Mass Spectrometry of Metal Carbonyls
14: Optical Spectroscopy
15: Quantum Chemistry Calculations
16: Multiphoton Ionization and Third Harmonic Generation in Alkali
Atoms
17: Electronic Absorption Spectroscopy of Molecular Iodine
18: Electronic Spectroscopy of Iodine using REMPI
19: Raman Spectroscopy under Liquid Nitrogen
20: Optical Rotary Dispersion of a Chiral Liquid (?-pinene)
21: Faraday Rotation
22: Fermi Resonance in CO2
23: Photoacoustic Spectroscopy of Methane
24: Optogalvanic Spectroscopy
25: Diode Laser Atomic Spectroscopy
26: Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy using THG in Rare Gases
27: Raman Shifting and Stimulated Electronic Raman Scattering
(SERS)
28: Fluorescence Lifetime of Iodine Vapor
29: Raman Spectroscopy Applied to Molecular Conformational
Analysis
30: Diffraction of Light from Blood Cells
31: Inversion of Sucrose by Acid Catalyzed Hydrolysis
Appendix I. Recommended Components and Equipment
Appendix II. Fast Signal Measurements
Robert N. Compton was born in Metropolis, IL. The Compton family
moved to Oak Ridge, TN during WWII where his father worked on the
Manhattan Project. He received degrees in Physics from Berea
College (BA), the University of Florida (MS) and the University of
Tennessee (PhD). He was a Senior Corporate Fellow at the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory from 1965 to 1995 and has been a Professor of
Physics and Chemistry at the University of Tennessee to the present
date.
He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Aarhus, University
of Paris, and the FOM Institute in Amsterdam. In 2001, he was an
Erskine Fellow at the University of Christchurch, New Zealand.
His
research interests include negative ions, laser spectroscopy, and
molecular chirality. Michael A. Duncan was born in Greenville, SC,
where he attended Furman University (B.S. 1976). In graduate school
at Rice University he worked with Prof. Richard E. Smalley (Ph.D.
1982). He was a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at
the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) in Boulder,
CO with Prof. Stephen Leone. He joined the University of Georgia
faculty in 1983. He uses laser
vaporization, molecular beams, mass spectrometry and laser
spectroscopy to study metal clusters, ion-molecule complexes and
carbocations. Duncan is Fellow of the American Physical Society
(2001) and
the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2004), and
Senior Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry since 1998. He
is recipient (2007) of an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the
Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin and won the Experimental Physical
Chemistry Award (2011) given by the American Chemical Society.
Laser Experiments for Chemistry and Physics is a file resource for
experienced physics instructors looking to set up new experiments
in advanced lab courses. Compton and Duncan provide both guidance
and inspiration in their outstanding collection of laser
experiments.
*Jason Stalnaker, Physics Today*
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specially focused in the fields of physical chemistry and
spectroscopy will most likely find the highest interest; however,
readers interested in broader areas of chemistry and physics should
also find this work very useful. If you belong to this potential
audience, the purchase of Laser Experiments for Chemistry and
Physics will doubtless be a good investment.
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