1. Edition - February 2010
99.- Euro
2010. XII, 234 Pages, Hardcover
37 Fig. (2 Colored Fig.), 14 Tab. 
- Monograph -
ISBN-10: 3-527-40707-3
ISBN-13: 978-3-527-40707-1 - Wiley-VCH, Berlin






Content

Sample Chapter



Short description
This book covers the most important knowledge on optical pumping of atoms and shows a unique approach which allows modelling under most experimental conditions, e.g. magnetic resonance with oscillating magnetic fields, magneto-optic forces, or spin-relaxation processes.

From the contents
1 Introduction
2 Alkali-Metal Atoms
3 Wave Functions and Schroedinger Space
4 Density Matrix and Liouville Space
5 Optical Pumping of Atoms
6 Quasi-Steady-State Optical Pumping
7 Modulation
8 Light Propagation
9 Radiation Forces
10 Relaxation of Polarized Atoms
11 Mathematical Appendix