Fundamental principles of lasers, thermal radiation and Planck s law, absorption, induced and spontaneous emission, basic photometric quantities, basic elements of a laser. Pertinent technical features of modern laser systems. Dynamics and Spectroscopy. Absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy, ionization techniques, time resolved techniques, chemical reaction dynamics, spectroscopy of collision processes. Industrial applications, laser remote sensing, mass spectrometry.
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