Course on Laser Spectroscopy and Synchrotron Radiation

Joachim Schulz

Week 40, 2006

• Lecture from October, the 3rd (250 kB)

  • Properties of laser light
  • The semiclassical approximation
  • Transition probabilities and Einstein parameters
  • The laser principle
  • mode selection or mode coupling

• Lecture from October, the 4th (1.4 MB)

  • The laser principle
  • rate equation
  • Two, three and four level system
  • An example laser system: Ti:sapphire
  • Brewster angle
  • Birefringence

• Lecture from October, the 5th (420 kB)

  • Theory of frequency doubling
  • Diode lasers for spectroscopy

Week 47, 2006

• Lecture from November, the 21st (240 kB)

  • Interferometers
  • Free Spectral Range
  • Amplitude modulation
  • Phase Modulation

• Lecture from November, the 22nd (400 kB)

  • Oscillator model for atomic systems
  • Optical Pumping
  • Orientation and Alignment

• Lecture from November, the 23rd (480 kB)

  • Hyperfine splitting
  • X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD)
  • Linear dichroism in photoelectron spectroscopy
  • Two step excitation
  • Laser pumped systems