Light-Matter Interaction: Atoms and Molecules in External Fields and Nonlinear Optics

✍ Scribed by Wendell T. Hill III

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 327
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book draws together the principal ideas that form the basis of atomic, molecular, and optical science and engineering. It covers the basics of atoms, diatomic molecules, atoms and molecules in static and electromagnetic fields and nonlinear optics. Exercises and bibliographies supplement each chapter, while several appendices present such important background information as physics and math definitions, atomic and molecular data, and tensor algebra.

Accessible to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, or researchers who have been trained in one of the conventional curricula of physics, chemistry, or engineering but who need to acquire familiarity with adjacent areas in order to pursue their research goals.

✦ Table of Contents

Title: Light-Matter Interaction - Atoms and Molecules in External Fields and Nonlinear Optics......Page 4
ISBN 3527406611......Page 5
Contents (with page links)......Page 6
Preface......Page 14
Part 1 Light-Matter Interaction: Atoms, Molecules and External Fields......Page 18
1 Hydrogen-Like Ion: An Atom (Ion) With One Electron......Page 20
2 The Structure of the Multielectron Atom......Page 50
3 Atoms in Static Fields......Page 70
4 Atoms in AC Fields......Page 86
5 Diatomic Molecules......Page 114
6 Molecules in External Fields......Page 154
Part 2 Light-Matter Interaction: Nonlinear Optics......Page 166
7 Nonlinear Optics......Page 168
8 Wave Propagation in Nonlinear Media......Page 184
9 Quantum Theory of Nonlinear Processes......Page 216
10 Applications of Nonlinear Optical Effects......Page 240
Appendix A: Atomic Physics Definitions......Page 276
Appendix B: Mathematics Related to AMO Calculations......Page 286
Appendix C: Atomic and Molecular Data......Page 302
Appendix D: Coupling Angular Momenta......Page 306
Appendix E: Tensor Algebra......Page 310
References......Page 318
Index (with page links)......Page 322