Optically Polarized Atoms
Understanding light-atom interactions
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 April 2014
- ISBN 9780198705024
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages390 pages
- Size 247x174x18 mm
- Weight 778 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 145 b/w line illustrations 0
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Short description:
An accessible textbook for students and practitioners of atomic, molecular, and optical physics. It will be useful for scientists working with lasers. The book comes with an extensive freely downloadable software package and many colourful and animated illustrations. Additional materials are available for instructors.
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This book is addressed to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students involved in research in atomic, molecular, and optical physics. It will also be useful to researchers practising in this field. It gives an intuitive, yet sufficiently detailed and rigorous introduction to light-atom interactions with a particular emphasis on the symmetry aspects of the interaction, especially those associated with the angular momentum of atoms and light. The book will enable readers to carry out practical calculations on their own, and is richly illustrated with examples drawn from current research topics, such as resonant nonlinear magneto-opticals. The book comes with a software package for a variety of atomic-physics calculations and further interactive examples that is freely downloadable from the book's web page, as well as additional materials (such as power-point presentations) available to instructors who adopt the text for their courses.
This is an excellent undergraduate textbook which provides a modern treatment of atom-light interactions from an experimentalist's perspective. I recommend this book to any student who aims for a deep understanding of the concepts in atomic physics and how to apply them to current research topics.
Table of Contents:
I: INTRODUCTION TO LIGHT-ATOM INTERACTIONS
Introduction
Atomic states
A bit of angular-momentum theory
Atoms in external electric and magnetic fields
Polarized atoms
Polarized light
Atomic transitions
Coherence in atomic systems
Optical pumping
Light-atom interaction observed in transmitted light
II: ADVANCED TOPICS
Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation
Perturbative and approximate methods for light-atom interactions
Polarization effects in transitions with partially resolved hyperfine structure
The effect of hyperfine splitting on nonlinear magneto-optical rotation
Coherence effects revisited
Collapse and revival in quantum beats
Nuclear quadrupole resonance and alignment-to-orientation conversion
Selective addressing of high-rank polarization moments
Tensor structure of the DC- and AC-Stark polarizabilities
Photoionization of polarized atoms with polarized light
Appendix A: Constants, units, and notations
Appendix B: Units of energy, frequency, and wavelength
Appendix C: Reference data for hydrogen and the alkali atoms
Appendix D: Classical rotations
Appendix E: Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with hyperfine structure
Appendix F: The Atomic Density Matrix software package
