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The laser as a radiation source with temporal and spatial coherence has made a tremendous impact in the different fields of science. As a result, new and exciting research has been developing allover the world. Laser spectro scopy shares a large fraction of this research, and in the last decade nu merous books and monographs have been published on this subject. Most of these books and monographs contain the work done in the physics community. Very few books represent the advances made in laser chemistry, a field that is flourishing and whose future is indeed very exciting. It was felt that a meeting that focused on the important questions being asked in the chemistry community, and on new and possible directions in laser chemistry, was needed. This three-day conference, held at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, on March 20-22, 1978, covered five important areas in laser chemistry: Laser-induced chemistry, picosecond processes and techniques, nonlinear optical spectroscopy and dephasing processes, multiphoton exci tation in molecules, and molecular dynamics by molecular beams.
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Series: Springer Series in Chemical Physics 3
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Year: 1,978
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Edition: 1
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Pages: 466
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Pages In File: 474
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Language: English
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Identifier: 978-3-642-67056-5,978-3-642-67054-1
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Doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-67054-1
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Paginated: 1
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Tags: Physics, general
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Toc: Front Matter....Pages I-XFront Matter....Pages 1-1Internal Energy Transfer in Isolated Molecules: Ergodic and Nonergodic Behavior....Pages 2-42Spectroscopy and Relaxation of Vibrationally Excited HCO Radicals....Pages 43-47Dye Laser-Induced Photochemistry....Pages 48-61Chemical Applications of Lasers....Pages 62-70A Direct Measure of the Partitioning of Electronic, Vibrational, Rotational, and Translational Energies in Unimolecular Processes....Pages 71-73Laser Synthetic Chemistry and Laser Photogeneration of Catalysis....Pages 74-81Vibrational Excitation in the Products of S-Tetrazine Photolysis....Pages 82-87Deuterium Enrichment by CW CO 2 Laser Induced Vibrational Photochemistry....Pages 88-92IR Photodissociation of Fluorinated Ethanes and Ethylenes: Collisional Effects in the Multiple Photon Absorption Process....Pages 93-96Front Matter....Pages 97-97Vibrational and Electronic Relaxation in Moderate Sized Systems....Pages 98-107Picosecond Emission Spectroscopy with an Ultraviolet Sensitive Streak Camera....Pages 108-125Picosecond Studies of Some Ultrafast Events in Bacterial Photosynthesis....Pages 126-144Advances in Subpicosecond Spectroscopic Techniques....Pages 145-148Picosecond Dynamics of the Formation of Charge Transfer States in 9,9′-Bianthryl....Pages 149-154Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Ultrashort-Lived States of Aromatic Compounds....Pages 155-162P