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Time-Resolved Laser Spectroscopy

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Laser Spectroscopy

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While the previous chapter emphasized the high spectral resolution achievable with different sub-Doppler techniques, this chapter concentrates on some methods which allow high time resolution. The generation of extremely short and intense laser pulses has opened the way for the study of fast transient phenomena, such as molecular relaxation processes in gases or liquids due to spontaneous or collision-induced transitions. A new field of laser spectroscopy is the time-resolved detection of coherence and interference effects such as quantum beats or coherent transients monitored with pulse Fourier transform spectroscopy.

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Demtröder, W. (1981). Time-Resolved Laser Spectroscopy. In: Laser Spectroscopy. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08257-7_11

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