Laser Molecule Interaction

JEAN RENE LALANNE is Professor of Chemical Physics at the University of Bordeaux I, France. ANDRE DUCASSE is Professor of Molecular Physics and Nonlinear Optics at the University of Bordeaux I, France. STANISLAW KIELICH was Professor of Nonlinear Optics at the University of Poznan, Poland.

DESCRIPTION OF THE MICROSCOPIC SYSTEMS AND OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF MATTER: Description of Microscopic Systems and of Associated Physical Quantities: A Review of Quantum Physics; Description of the Optical Properties of Media: Tensors and Their Applications; Passage from the Microscopic to Macroscopic: Statistical Physics. THE LASER WAVE AND ITS PROPERTIES: The Laser; Spatial Structure of a Laser Wave and Its Consequences; Time Structure of a Laser Wave and Its Consequences. FUNDAMENTALS OF LASER-MOLECULE INTERACTION: Applications of the Density of Operator Formalism to Stationary Resonant Laser-Molecule Interaction; Application of the Vector of State Formalism to Laser-Matter Interaction: Nth Order Optical Susceptibility.