Laser Spectroscopy

Chairman's Opening Remarks.- Spectroscopy I.- Introductory Remarks.- Extension of Microwave Detection and Frequency Measuring Techniques into the Optical Region.- Infrared-Microwave Double Resonance.- Non-Linear Effects and Coherence Phenomena in Optical Pumping.- Tunable Lasers I.- Generation of Ultraviolet and Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiation.- Parametric Oscillators.- A Tunable Infrared Coherent Source for the 2 to 25 Micron Region and Beyond.- Oscillation on the Ultraviolet Bound-Free Continua of Diatomic Molecular Xenon and Molecular Krypton.- Ultrahigh Resolution Saturated Absorption Spectroscopy.- Speed of Light from Direct Laser Frequency and Wavelength Measurements: Emergence of a Laser Standard of Length.- High Resolution Spectroscopy with Tunable Dye Lasers.- Precision Heterodyne Calibration.- Absorption Spectroscopy from Selectively Excited Atomic Singlet Levels.- Spectroscopy of Highly Excited Levels in Alkali Atoms Using a CW Tunable Dye Laser.- Tunable Lasers II.- High Resolution Tunable Infrared Lasers.- Advances in Tunable Lead-Salt Semiconductor Lasers.- High Pressure Waveguide Gas Lasers.- Wideband Waveguide CO2 Lasers.- Frequency Stabilization of a CW Dye Laser.- Coherent Transient Effects.- Coherent Transient Study of Velocity-Changing Collisions.- Theory of Coherent Transients.- Pulsed Microwave Rotational Relaxation Studies.- Off-Resonance Pulse Propagation in a Two-Level System-Distance Dependence of the Carrier Frequency.- Observation of Slow Velocities and Self-Steepening of Optical Pulses Described by Adiabatic Following.- Spectroscopy III.- Saturation Spectroscopy of Atoms.- Molecular Beam Spectroscopy with Argon and Dye Lasers.- Self-Induced Emission in Optically Pumped HF Gas: The Rise and Fall of the Superradiant State.- Infrared-Microwave (Radiofrequency) Two-Photon Spectroscopy.- Observation of Lamb-Dip and Transient Nutation at Microwave Frequency.- Quantum Beat Spectroscopy Using Tunable Pulsed Dye Lasers.- Observation of Superhyperfine Modulation and Quantum Beats in Photon-Echo Spectroscopy in Ruby.- Tunable Lasers III.- Spin-Flip Raman Laser and Applications.- High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy Using Tunable Semiconductor Lasers.- Far Infrared Generation.- Tunable Far-Infrared Generation by Difference-Frequency Mixing in Indium Antimonide.- Kilowatt Spin-Flip Outputs in the 5 µm Region: Application to Chemical Spectroscopy and Resonant Non-Linear Mixing.- Spectroscopy IV.- Laser Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.- Infrared-Microwave Double Resonance Measurements of T1 in Methyl Fluoride and Methyl Chloride.- Accurate Rotational Constants, Frequencies, and Wavelengths from 12C16O2 Lasers Stabilized by Saturated Absorption.- Picosecond Studies of Ultrafast Molecular Processes in Liquids.- Laser Negative Ion Spectroscopy.- Time Evolution of Unimolecular Processes in Isolated Molecules by Crossed Laser and Molecular Beams.- Selective Two-Step Dissociation of Ammonia Molecules.- Quantum Electronic Techniques in Astrophysics: Present Developments and Future Prospects.- Experiments of Astrophysical Significance Using a Laser Strainmeter.- Participants.