Laser Spectroscopy V

Introduction: Progress and Perspectives in Laser Spectroscopy.- I. Fundamental Applications of Laser Spectroscopy.- Precision Spectroscopy and Laser Frequency Control Using FM Sideband Optical Heterodyne Techniques.- High Precision Laser Interferometry for Detection of Gravitational Radiation.- Optical Cavity Laser Interferometers for Gravitational Wave Detection.- A Proposed Two Photon Correlation Experiment as a Test of Hidden Variable Theories.- Lamb Shift Studies of Cl16+.- II. Laser Spectroscopic Applications.- Selective Spectrum Simplification by Laser Level Labeling.- Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy: Counting Noble Gas Atoms.- Linewidth Characteristics of (GaAI) as Semiconductor Diode Lasers.- High Sensitivity Spectroscopy with Tunable Diode Lasers - Detection of O2 Quadrupole Transitions and 14C.- New Techniques and Applications for High Resolution Tunable Submillimeter Spectroscopy.- Infrared Heterodyne Spectroscopy of Ammonia and Ethjlene in Stars.- Stark Modulation Spectroscopy in the Visible Region.- Alignment Effects in Optogalvanic Spectroscopy.- Spin Polarization of Atoms by Laser Driven Two Photon and Excimer Transitions.- High Power Tunable Mid IR NH3-N2 Laser and Its Application for Selective Interaction with Multiatomic Molecules.- III. Double Resonance.- Infrared-Ultraviolet Double Resonance Studies of Molecular Energy Transfer.- Pulsed Optical-Optical Double Resonance Spectroscopy of 7Li2.- Double-Resonance Polarization Spectroscopy of the Caesium-Dimer (Cs2).- Laser-Microwave Spectroscopy of Li+ Ions.- Laser-Induced Coherence Effects in Molecular Beam Optical-RF Double Resonance.- Probing the Dressed Molecule Energy Levels by Infrared-Radiofrequency Double Resonance.- Infrared-Microwave Double Resonance Spectroscopy of Tetrahedral MoleculesUsing a Tunable Diode Laser.- Molecular-Beam, Laser-RF, Double Resonance Studies of Calcium Monohalide Radicals.- IV. Collision-Induced Phenomena.- Collision-Induced Coherence in Four Wave Light Mixing.- Collisional Effects in Resonance Fluorescence.- Theory of Nonlinear Optical Resonances Induced by Collisions.- Polarization Intermodulated Excitation (POLINEX) Spectroscopy of Excited Atoms.- Laser Optical Pumping in Atomic Vapors with Velocity Changing Collisions.- Dressed Atom Approach to Line Broadening.- Collisional Processes Between Laser-Excited Potassium Atoms.- Noble Gas Induced Relaxation of the Li 3S-3P Transition Spanning the Short Term Impact Regime to the Long Term Asymptotic Regime.- Double Resonance Studies of Collision-Induced Transitions in a Molecular Beam.- V. Nonlinear Processes.- New Phenomena in Coherent Optical Transients.- Stimulated Raman Studies of CO2-Laser-Excited SF6.- Pulsed and CW Molecular Beam CARS Spectroscopy.- Spectroscopy of Higher Order CARS and CSRS.- Multiphoton Free-Free Transitions.- Precision Studies in 3-Level Systems.- Non-Linear Hanle Effect: Saturation Parameters and Power Enhancements in Lasers.- Atomic Coherence Effects in Resonant Four-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy of Sodium.- On the Validity of the Judd-Ofelt Theory for Two-Photon Absorption in the Rare Earths.- Molecular Spectroscopy Using Diode and Combined Diode-CO2 Lasers.- Two-Photon Light Shift in Optically Pumped FIR Lasers.- Optical Stark Splitting of Rotational Raman Transitions.- VI. Rydberg States (Panel Discussion).- Resonant Collisions Between Two Rydberg Atoms.- Rydberg Atoms in Magnetic Fields - The Landau Limit of the Spectrum.- High Precision Energy Level Measurements in Helium.- Rydberg-Rydberg Interactions in Dense Systems of Highly Excited Atoms.-Turning Off the Vacuum.- Influence of the Earth Magnetic Field of the Photoionization Stark Spectrum of Excited Sodium Atoms.- Rydberg Superradiance.- Collision Effects with High-Rydberg State Atoms.- Perturbations in Rydberg Sequences Probed by Lifetime, Zeeman-Effect and Hyperfine-Structure Measurements.- VII. Methods of Studying Unstable Species.- Optogalvanic Spectroscopy in Recombination-Limited Plasmas with Color Center Lasers.- LIF Studies of Fragment Ions: CH+ and CD+.- Sub-Doppler Spectroscopy of Some Gaseous Metal Oxide Molecules.- The Infrared Spectrum of H3+.- Infrared Vibrational Predissociation Spectroscopy of Small Molecular Clusters.- The Direct Photodissociation of van der Waals Molecules.- Optothermal Infrared Spectroscopy.- Laser Magnetic Double Resonance Spectra at 5 and 10 ?m.- High Sensitivity Color Center Laser Spectroscopy.- VIII. Cooling, Trapping and Control of Ions, Atoms, and Molecules.- Mono-Ion Oscillator for Ultimate Resolution Laser Spectroscopy.- Laser Cooling and Double Resonance Spectroscopy of Stored Ions.- Spectroscopy of Trapped Negative Ions.- Atomic Deceleration, Monochromatization and Trapping in Laser Waves: Theory and Experiments.- IX. Surface and Said State.- FM Spectroscopy and Frequency Domain Optical Memories.- Spectroscopy of Very Weakly Absorbing Condensed Media.- Optical Hole-Burning and Ground State Energy Transfer in Ruby.- Surface-Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Effects and Detection of Adsorbed Molecular Monolayers.- Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering from Lithographically Prepared Microstructures.- Investigation of Molecule-Surface Interaction by Laser-Induced Fluorescence.- Hyperfine Studies of Rare-Earth Ions Dilute in Optical Solids.- X. Vacuum Ultraviolet.- Anti-Stokes Scattering as an XUV Radiation Source.- TheStudy of Atomic and Molecular Processes with Rare-Gas Halogen Lasers.- Optical Second Harmonic Generation by a Single Laser Beam in an Isotropic Medium.- Quantitative VUV Absorption Spectroscopy of Free Ions.- Laser-Assisted Collisional Energy Transfer Between Rydberg States of Carbon Monoxide.- XI. Progress in New Laser Sources.- Optically Pumped Semiconductor Platelet Lasers.- Short Wavelength Laser Design.- Free Electron Laser Experiment on the ACO Storage Ring (Orsay).- Simple UV, Visible and IR Recombination Lasers in Expanding Metal-Vapor Plasmas.- A Two-Photon Laser.- List of Contributors.