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.
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Alan Corney is retired from Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford.
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excited state density matrix, hertzian coherence, helium metastable density, optical pumping cell, resonance fluorescence experiments, depopulation pumping, polarized resonance radiation, coherence narrowing, optical pumping cycle, optical pumping experiments, different hyperfine levels, hydrogenic systems, ensemble density matrix, atomic beam technique, saturated absorption spectroscopy, atomic beam apparatus, hyperfine pumping, resonance cell, foreign gas broadening, saturated gain coefficient, electric quadrupole radiation, interatomic collisions, inversion density, metastable atoms, hyperfine separations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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