FIZ 473E - Spectral Analysis Methods

Course Objectives

1. Learning of the principles of optical elements and instruments
2. Learning of spectroscopic methods
3. Learning of some applications of spectroscopy

Course Description

Absorption and Emission of Light; Cavity Modes, Basic Photometric Quantities, Polarization of Light, Transition Probabilities, Coherence Properties of Radiation Fields. Spectroscopic Instrumentation; Spectrographs and Monochromators, Interferometers, Accurate Wavelength Measurements, Detection of Light, Widths and Profiles of spectral Lines;Natural Linewidth, Doppler Width, Collision Broadening of Spectral Lines, Lasers as Spectroscopic Light Sources; Fundamentals of Lasers, Laser Resonators, Spectral characteristics of Laser Emission, Experimental Realization of Single-Mode Lasers, Tunable Lasers, Nonlinear Optical Mixing Techniques, Doppler-Limited Spectroscopy, Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Raman Spectroscopy, Application of Laser Spectroscopy