Lasers, Molecules, and Methods, Volume 73

by Hirschfelder, Joseph O.; Wyatt, Robert E.; Coalson, Rob D.; Prigogine, Ilya; Rice, Stuart A.

• ISBN13: 9780471624578
• ISBN10: 0471624578
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1989-01-17
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience

Summary

Based on a symposium on lasers, molecules, and methods held at the Los Alamos Center for Nonlinear Studies held in July 1986. Contributors present recent advances in theoretical and experimental research on a diversity of dynamical and optical phenomena resulting from the interactions of laser beams with molecules. They describe the predictive results of sophisticated mathematical models, the equipment involved in experiments, and reveal new insights into molecular structure and behavior.

Author Biography

Joseph O Hirschfelder was an American physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project and in the creation of the nuclear bomb.

Robert E Wyatt is a professor of chemistry at University of Texas at Austin, Department Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Table of Contents

Partial table of contents:

Where Are Laser-Molecule Interactions Headed?

(J. Hirschfelder).

MATHEMATICAL METHODS.

Numerical Treatment of Linear and Nonlinear Periodic Systems with Applications (P. Friedmann).

Stationary-Phase Monte Carlo Methods (J. Doll & D. Freeman).

SPECTROSCOPY AND RELAXATION.

Analytic Solutions and Dynamic Symmetries in Laser-Driven Atomic Excitations (F. Hioe).

Reduced Equations of Motion for Molecular Lineshapes and Semiclassical Dynamics in Liouville Space (S. Mukamel & Y. Yan).

Local Mode Overtones and Mode Selectivity (J. Hutchinson).

Generalized Floquet Theoretical Approaches to Intense-Field Multiphoton and Nonlinear Optical Processes (S. Chu).

Squeezed States of Light (H. Kimble).

Adiabatic Switching: A Tool for Semiclassical Quantization and a New Probe of Classically Chaotic Phase Phase Space (W. Reinhardt).