Modern Optical Spectroscopy With Exercises and Examples from Biophysics and Biochemistry /

• Main Author: Parson, William W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Spectroscopy.; Biochemistry.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Life Sciences.; Biochemistry, general.; Spectroscopy/Spectrometry.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.

This textbook offers clear explanations of optical spectroscopic phenomena and shows how spectroscopic techniques are used in modern molecular and cellular biophysics and biochemistry. The topics covered include electronic and vibrational absorption, fluorescence, resonance energy transfer, exciton...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Basic concepts of quantum mechanics
• Light
• Electronic absorption
• Fluorescence
• Vibrational absorption
• Resonance energy transfer
• Exciton interactions
• Circular dichroism
• Coherence and dephasing
• Pump-probe spectroscopy, photon echoes and vibrational wavepackets
• Raman scattering and other two-photon processes
• Appendix.