Principles of Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy

by Mukamel, Shaul

• ISBN13: 9780195132915
• ISBN10: 0195132912
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This textbook presents a systematic and unifying viewpoint for a wide class of nonlinear spectroscopic techniques in time domain and frequency domain. It is directed towards active researchers in physics, optics, chemistry, and materials science, as well as graduate students who enter thiscomplex and rapidly developing field. Nonlinear optical interactions of laser fields with matter provide powerful spectroscopic tools for the understanding of microscopic interactions and dynamic processes. One of the major obstacles facing researchers in this field, however, is the flood of experimental techniques and terminologies,which create a serious language barrier. The general microscopic correlation function approach to the nonlinear optical response developed in this book is essential for understanding the relationships among different techniques and a comparison of their information content, the design of newmeasurements, and for a systematic comparison of the optical response of different systems such as dyes in solutions, atoms and molecules in the gas phase, liquids, molecular aggregates and superlatives, and semiconductor nanostructures. The approach is based on formulating the nonlinear response byrepresenting the state of matter by the density matrix and following its evolution on Liouville space. Current active research areas such as femtosecond time-domain techniques, semi-classical and wave-packet dynamics, pulse shaping, pulse locking, exciton confinement, and the interplay ofelectronic, nuclear and field coherence are emphasized. The material has been developed from the author's highly successful interdisciplinary course at the University of Rochester attended by science and engineering graduate students.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Quantum Dynamics in Hilbert Space

The Density Operator and Quantum Dynamics in Liouville Space

Quantum Electrodynamics, Optical Polarization, and Nonlinear Spectroscopy

Nonlinear Response Functions and Optical Susceptibilities

The Optical Response Functions of a Multilevel System with Relaxation

Semiclassical Simulation of the Optical Response Functions

The Cumulant Expansion and the Multimode Brownian Oscillator Model

Fluorescence, Spontaneous-Raman and Coherent-Raman Spectroscopy

Selective Elimination of Inhomogeneous Broadening Photon Echoes

Resonant Gratings, Pump-Probe, and Hole Burning Spectroscopy

Wavepacket Dynamics in Liouville Space The Wigner Representation

Wavepacket Analysis of Nonimpulsive Measurements

Off-Resonance Raman Scattering

Polarization Spectroscopy Birefringence and Dichroism

Nonlinear Response of Molecular Assemblies The Local-Field Approximation

Many Body and Cooperative Effects in the Nonlinear Response

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