This is the second volume of textbooks on atomic, molecular and optical physics, aiming at a comprehensive presentation of this highly productive branch of modern physics as an indispensable basis for many areas in physics and chemistry as well as in state of the art bio- and material-sciences. It primarily addresses advanced students (including PhD students), but in a number of selected subject areas the reader is lead up to the frontiers of present research. Thus even the active scientist is addressed. This volume 2 introduces lasers and quantum optics, while the main focus is on the structure of molecules and their spectroscopy, as well as on collision physics as the continuum counterpart to bound molecular states. The emphasis is always on the experiment and its interpretation, while the necessary theory is introduced from this perspective in a compact and occasionally somewhat heuristic manner, easy to follow even for beginners.

This is the first volume of textbooks on atomic, molecular and optical physics, aiming at a comprehensive presentation of this highly productive branch of modern physics as an indispensable basis for many areas in physics and chemistry as well as in state of the art bio- and material-sciences. It primarily addresses advanced students (including PhD students), but in a number of selected subject areas the reader is lead up to the frontiers of present research. Thus even the active scientist is addressed. This volume 1 provides the canonical knowledge in atomic physics together with basics of modern spectroscopy. Starting from the fundamentals of quantum physics, the reader is familiarized in well structured chapters step by step with the most important phenomena, models and measuring techniques. The emphasis is always on the experiment and its interpretation, while the necessary theory is introduced from this perspective in a compact and occasionally somewhat heuristic manner, easy to follow even for beginners.

This is the second volume of textbooks on atomic, molecular and optical physics, aiming at a comprehensive presentation of this highly productive branch of modern physics as an indispensable basis for many areas in physics and chemistry as well as in state of the art bio- and material-sciences. It primarily addresses advanced students (including PhD students), but in a number of selected subject areas the reader is lead up to the frontiers of present research. Thus even the active scientist is addressed. This volume 2 introduces lasers and quantum optics, while the main focus is on the structure of molecules and their spectroscopy, as well as on collision physics as the continuum counterpart to bound molecular states. The emphasis is always on the experiment and its interpretation, while the necessary theory is introduced from this perspective in a compact and occasionally somewhat heuristic manner, easy to follow even for beginners.

This is the first volume of textbooks on atomic, molecular and optical physics, aiming at a comprehensive presentation of this highly productive branch of modern physics as an indispensable basis for many areas in physics and chemistry as well as in state of the art bio- and material-sciences. It primarily addresses advanced students (including PhD students), but in a number of selected subject areas the reader is lead up to the frontiers of present research. Thus even the active scientist is addressed. This volume 1 provides the canonical knowledge in atomic physics together with basics of modern spectroscopy. Starting from the fundamentals of quantum physics, the reader is familiarized in well structured chapters step by step with the most important phenomena, models and measuring techniques. The emphasis is always on the experiment and its interpretation, while the necessary theory is introduced from this perspective in a compact and occasionally somewhat heuristic manner, easy to follow even for beginners.

Das Buch bietet eine detaillierte Einfuhrung in die wichtigsten Themenkomplexe der Atom- und Molekulphysik und die damit verbundenen Methoden moderner optischer Physik. In vielen ausgewahlten Teilgebieten fuhrt es bis hin zum aktuellen Stand der Forschung. Es wendet sich damit in erster Linie an fortgeschrittene Studierende der Physik und der Physikalischen Chemie bis hin zur Promotion. Zugleich spricht es aber auch den aktiven Wissenschaftler an und will ein Standardwerk des Gebietes sein. Die vorliegende zweite Auflage wurde in den Grundlagen wie in den Anwendungen ausfuhrlich erweitert und aktualisiert. Durch die nochmals verbesserte klare Strukturierung der Kapitel wird der Leser - ausgehend von den Grundlagen der Mikro- und Quantenphysik - schrittweise mit den wichtigsten Phanomenen und Modellen der Atom- und Molekulphysik vertraut gemacht und, wo immer es sich anbietet, an deren aktuelle Entwicklungen in der modernen Forschung heran gefuhrt. Im hier vorgelegten ersten Te il wird das kanonische Wissen mit dem Schwerpunkt Struktur der Atome und einer Einfuhrung in die moderne Spektroskopie zusammengetragen. Der zweite Band vertieft ausgewahlte Themen aus der modernen Optik, konzentriert sich dann auf die Molekulphysik sowie ihre Spektroskopie und fuhrt in die Physik atomarer Stossprozesse ein. Insgesamt moechten die beiden Bande dieses Lehrbuchs dem interessierten Leser zeigen, dass Atome, Molekule und optische Physik nicht nur die Grundlagen fur weite Gebiet der Physik und ihrer Nachbardisziplinen beinhalten, sondern nach wie vor ein lebendiger Bereich der modernen physikalischen Forschung sind.