Spectroscopy
This is the combined script for the lectures "Spectroscopy of Soft Matter" and "Nanoptics & Plasmonics" in the master program. Each chapter introduces an experiment and then discusses everything necessary to understand the experiment. This will give you a solid overview of various coherent and incoherent, linear and nonlinear spectroscopic techniques as well as basic concepts and ideas of nanooptics.
Lecture Notes 'Experiments in Spectroscopy'
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Content
I Fundamentals
- 1 Absorption
- 2 Fluorescence
- 3 Molecular Vibrations
- 4 Rayleigh and Mie Scattering
- 5 Molecular Aggregates — Coupled Two-Level Systems
II Two Level Systems
- 6 Rabi Oscillations
- 7 (Perturbed) Free Induction Decay
- 8 Strong coupling of cavity and emitter
- 9 Weak coupling of cavity and emitter: Purcell Effect
III Nonlinear Spectroscopy
- 10 Second Harmonic Generation
- 11 Four-Wave Mixing
- 12 Two-Photon Absorption
- 13 Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy
IV Plasmonics
- 14 Plasmon hybridization
- 15 Surface plasmons as example of optics of layered media
- 16 Lattices of plasmonic particles
- 17 Plasmonic Nano-Rods
V Nanooptics
- 18 Angular spectrum representation
- 19 Dipole emission at interfaces
Appendix
- A Julia and Pluto
- B Fourier transformation