Laser Spectroscopy IV

Historical Perspectives in Laser Spectroscopy.- I. Fundamental Physical Applications of Laser Spectroscopy.- An Improved Test of the Isotropy of Space Using Laser Techniques.- Suggestion and Analysis for a New Optical Test of General Relativity.- High Resolution Spectroscopy of Atomic Hydrogen.- Direct Frequency Measurement of the 260 THz (1.15 ?m) 20Ne Laser: And Beyond.- Transverse Resonance-Radiation Pressure on Atomic Beams and the Influence of Fluctuations.- Deflection of a Na Beam by Resonant Standing Wave Radiation.- Laser Cooling of Ions Bound to a Penning Trap.- Preparation, Cooling, and Spectroscopy of Single, Localized Ions.- II. Two and Three Level Atoms/High Resolution Spectroscopy.- Theories of Laser Bandwidth Effects in Spectroscopy.- Interaction of Two Resonant Laser Fields with a Folded Doppler Broadened System of I2.- Compensation of Doppler Broadening by Velocity-Dependent Light-Shifts.- Multiple Coherent Interaction in Optical Separated Fields.- High Resolution Spectroscopy of Calcium Atoms.- High Resolution Two-Photon Spectroscopy of Rb Rydberg Levels.- High Resolution Saturation Spectroscopy with CO2 Lasers. Application to the v3 Bands of SF6 and OsO4.- High Resolution Laser Spectroscopy of Small Molecules.- Single Molecular Isotope Absorption-Spectra.- High Resolution Coherent Raman Spectroscopy of Gases.- Doppler-Free Optogalvanic Spectroscopy.- Laser Saturation Spectroscopy with Optical Pumping.- Doppler-Free Intracavity Polarization Spectroscopy.- Forward Scattering and Polarization Spectroscopy.- Spectroscopic Studies into Elastic Scattering of Excited Particles.- III. Rydberg States.- Stark Ionization of Rydberg States.- Rydberg States and Microwaves: High Resolution Spectroscopy, Masers, and Superradiance.- High Resolution Spectroscopy ofRydberg States.- Term Values, Pressure Broadenings and Shifts in High Rydberg Levels of Rubidium.- Doubly Excited Alkaline Earth Atoms.- Selective Detection of Single Atoms by Multistep Excitation and Ionization Through Rydberg States.- IV. Multiphoton Dissociation, Multiphoton Excitation.- Classical Model of SF6 Multiphoton Dissociation.- Collisionless Multiple Photon Excitations in SF6: Thermal or not?.- Resonant Multiphoton Dissociation of Small Molecules.- Double Resonance Spectroscopy of Multiple-Photon Excited Molecules.- Spectroscopy of Photodissociation Products.- V. Nonlinear Processes, Laser Induced Collisions, Multiphoton Ionization.- Recent Progress in Four-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy.- Laser Induced Collisional and Radiative Energy Transfer.- Laser Bandwidth and Intensity Effects in Multiphoton Ionization of Sodium.- Saturation and Stark-Splitting of Resonant Transitions in Stochastically Fluctuating Laser Fields of Arbitrary Bandwidth.- VI. Coherent Transients, Time Domain Spectroscopy.- Two-Pulse Spectroscopy with Picosecond Laser Pulses.- Spectroscopy of Photoreaction Centres by Tunable Picosecond Parametric Oscillators.- Ultraslow Optical Dephasing of Pr3+: LaF3.- Optical Coherence Storage in Spin States.- Time-Resolved Infrared Spectral Photography.- VII. Optical Bistability, Superradiance.- Theory of Optical Bistability.- Controlling Light with Light: Optical Bistability and Optical Modulation.- Theory of Superfluorescence.- Quantum Theory of Superfluorescence.- Experiments on the Initiation and Coherence Properties of Superfluorescence.- Coupled Transitions in Superradiance.- VIII. Laser Spectroscopic Applications.- Phase Conjugate Optics.- Laser-Induced Selective Multistep Processes: Impact on Nuclear Physics, Chemistry and Biology.- Laser Spectroscopy of Short-Lived Isotopes in Fast Atomic Beams and Resonance Cells.- Hyperfine Spectroscopy of Radioactive Alkali Isotopes.- Atomic Beam Laser Spectroscopy of Radioactive Ba Atoms.- Dye Laser Saturation Spectroscopy with Beams of Atoms and Ions.- Laser Induced Nuclear Orientation.- Information on Nuclear Quadrupole Moments from Laser-rf Double-Resonance Spectroscopy.- Laser-rf Double-Resonance Spectroscopy.- cw VUV Generation and the Diagnostics of the Hydrogen Plasma.- IX. Laser Sources.- Tunable Transition-Metal-Doped Solid State Lasers.- New Methods for the Generation of Ultrashort Dye Laser Pulses.- Optically Pumped Molecular Lasers.- Nd:YAG Pumped Tunable Sources and Application to ?(3) Spectroscopy.- X. Postdeadline Papers.- Atomic-Beam and Resonance Spectroscopy of Alkali and Alkaline-Earth Atoms.- Observation of Transient and Stationary Zeeman Coherence by Polarization Spectroscopy.- Experimental Evidence for Light-Shift Induced Zero-Field Level Crossing ("Optical Hanle Effect").- Diamagnetic and Collisional Perturbations of Caesium Rydberg States.- Collisional Effects in the Saturation Spectroscopy of Three-Level Systems: Theory and Experiment.- Double-Quantum Saturation Spectroscopy with Lasers and rf.- High Resolution Spectroscopy in Helium.- Doppler-Limited Spectroscopy of the 3 v3 Band of SF6.- Stimulated Level Shifting and Velocity Inversion in UV-Laser-Excited Photofragments.- Multiphoton Ionization Mass Spectrometry.- Standing Wave Saturation Effects in Coupled Three-Level Systems: IR-FIR Transferred Lamb-Dip in Optically Pumped Molecular Lasers.- Laser Spectroscopy in Intense Magnetic Fields.- Real-Time Picosecond Measurements of Electronic Energy Transfer from DODCI to Malachite Green and DQOCI.- Quantum Beats in Triplet States of PhosphorescentMolecules Following Laser Flash Excitation.- Doppler-Free Optoacoustic Spectroscopy.- Pulsed Opto-Acoustic Spectroscopy of Liquids.- Design and Performance of a Broadband "Optical Diode" to Enforce One-Direction Traveling Wave Operation of a Ring Laser.- Index of Contributors.