Lasers and Chemical Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Lasers and Chemical Change

   • Avinoam Ben-Shaul, Yehuda Haas, Raphael D. Levine, Karl Ludwig Kompa

   Pages 1-44

3. Disequilibrium

   • Avinoam Ben-Shaul, Yehuda Haas, Raphael D. Levine, Karl Ludwig Kompa

   Pages 45-191

4. Photons, Molecules, and Lasers

   • Avinoam Ben-Shaul, Yehuda Haas, Raphael D. Levine, Karl Ludwig Kompa

   Pages 192-288

5. Chemical Lasers

   • Avinoam Ben-Shaul, Yehuda Haas, Raphael D. Levine, Karl Ludwig Kompa

   Pages 289-359

6. Laser Chemistry

   • Avinoam Ben-Shaul, Yehuda Haas, Raphael D. Levine, Karl Ludwig Kompa

   Pages 360-460

7. Back Matter

   Pages 461-500

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Lasers and chemical change is the study of radiation and molecules in dis­ equilibrium. The distinguishing feature of such systems is the extreme de­ parture from thermal equilibrium: the radiation is usually confined to a narrow frequency range, is well coll imated, and is far brighter than black body radiation; the chemical composition and also the distribution of mole­ cules over their different energy states are often markedly displaced from that expected at equilibrium. Such systems can be used as a source of laser radiation and, reversedly, lasers can rapidly and selectively displace mole­ cular systems from equilibrium. The subsequent evolution of the initially prepared state can then be monitored - again using lasers. One purpose of this book is to introduce the concepts required to d- cuss systems of radiation and molecules in disequilibrium. These include the physics of (laser) radiation and of radiation-matter interaction and molecular structure and spectroscopy. Excellent textbooks of these topics are available and our survey (in Chap. 3) is only intended to accent the es­ sential points, with special reference to atomic and molecular radiation physics. Considerably more attention is given to the topic of disequilibrium in chemical systems (Chap. 2). In particular we consider both inter- and intra­ molecular dynamics with special reference to energy requirements and energy disposal in chemical reactions and to what goes on in between - intramole­ cular energy migration.

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• Exciplex
• Migration
• chemical reaction
• dynamics
• energy
• entropy
• kinetics
• laser
• molecule
• photochemistry
• physics
• radiation
• spectroscopy
• thermodynamics

• Department of Physical Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

  Avinoam Ben-Shaul, Yehuda Haas, Raphael D. Levine

• Max-Planck-Institut für Laserforschung, Garching, Fed. Rep. of Germany

  Karl Ludwig Kompa

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