Molecules and Radiation: Introduction to Modern Molecular Spectroscopy - Softcover

Steinfeld, Jeffrey I.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262690594 ISBN 13: 9780262690591

Publisher: MIT Press, 1978

Synopsis

This text begins with the mathematical and physical apparatus encountered in most first courses in molecular quantum mechanics. The first nine chapters provide an introduction to research monographs of Herzberg and others in the field. Included here are discussions of radiationless transitions, photoelectron spectroscopy, and other topics not usually considered in texts at this level. Chapters on the latest research and methods in the field--molecular beam and optical pumping spectroscopy, masers and lasers, and multiphoton spectroscopy--follow. The analogy of simple magnetic resonance spectroscopy to optical spectroscopy is explained using the Feynman-Vernon-Hellwarth theorem and then applied to saturation, self-induced transparency, and photon echoes.The author writes that the book "is the outgrowth of several iterations of a one-semester graduate course in molecular spectroscopy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with supplementary material added. The emphasis of the course was on introducing students to the concepts and the methods of modern molecular spectroscopy so that the language would be familiar when the course proceeded to discuss quantum electronics, lasers, and related coherent and nonlinear optical phenomena."

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Review

"It is the object of this graduate-level textbook to provide a back-ground of basic spectroscopic principles adequate for understanding much of both traditional and contemporary spectroscopy. Because of his unusually lucid explanations, the author has succeeded admirably in his stated objective of providing such a background without making the text so geared to current research trends that it would quickly become outdated. The selection of problems at the end of each chapter is excellent, as is the selection of references both to monographs and to the primary research literature.... It is strongly recommended that this book be examined by anyone interested in either teaching or learning about spectroscopy from a contemporary point of view."--"Journal of the American Chemical Society"

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262690594
• ISBN 13: 9780262690591
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368