Frontiers of Optical Spectroscopy Investigating Extreme Physical Conditions with Advanced Optical Techniques /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bartolo, Baldassare Di (Editor), Forte, Ottavio (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, 168
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum physics.; Atoms.; Condensed matter.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.; Quantum Physics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.

Advanced spectroscopic techniques allow the probing of very small systems and very fast phenomena, conditions that can be considered "extreme" at the present status of our experimentation and knowledge. Quantum dots, nanocrystals and single molecules are examples of the former and events o...