The 3rd edition of this textbook offers clear explanations of optical spectroscopic phenomena and shows how spectroscopic techniques are used in modern chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics.

Topics included are:

Topics Included

electronic and vibrational absorption

fluorescence

symmetry operations and normal-mode calculations 

electron transfer from excited molecules

energy transfer

exciton interactions

electronic and vibrational circular dichroism

coherence and dephasing

ultrafast pump-probe and photon-echo spectroscopy

single-molecule and fluorescence-correlation spectroscopy

Raman scattering

multiphoton absorption

quantum optics and non-linear optics

entropy changes during photoexcitation

electronic and vibrational Stark effects 

studies of fast processes in single molecules

two-dimensional electronic and vibrational spectroscopy

Additional Content

This revised and updated edition provides expanded discussions of laser spectroscopy, crystal symmetry, birefringence, non-linear optics, solar cells and light-emitting diodes.

The explanations are sufficiently thorough and detailed to be useful for researchers, graduate students and advanced undergraduates in chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics. They are based on time-dependent quantum mechanics, but are developed from first principles so that they can be understood by readers with little prior training in the field. Additional topics and highlights are presented in special boxes in the text. The book is richly illustrated with color figures throughout. Each chapter ends with a section of questions for self-examination.