Physics 3

Laser Physics, Optics and Spectroscopy, Atomic and Molecular Physics

• General issues of molecular and atomic physics
• Electronic shells of atoms
• Geometry, rotation and vibrations of molecules
• Electronic shells of molecules
• Intermolecular forces
  • Clusters
• Collisions of atoms and molecules with particles
• Interactions of atoms and molecules with external fields and radiation
• Interaction of atoms and molecules with media

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• Radiation and wave optics
  • Wave Optics
  • Nonlinear phenomena
  • Quantum Optics
  • Statistical Optics
  • Coherence
  • Optics of thin films and optical waveguides
  • Radiation of EM waves by Charged particles
  • Synchrotron radiation
  • Cherenkov radiation
  • Optical Metrology
• Optics of atoms and ions
  • Excitation and relaxation
  • Interaction of atoms with strong optical fields including laser cooling
• Molecular Optics
  • Electro-and magnetooptical effects
  • Rotation spectra
  • Raman Scattering
• Optics of condensed matter
  • Processing of relaxation
  • X-ray range: scattering, absorption, radiation ect.
  • Light scattering
  • Electrooptics
  • Action of optical radiation on condensed matter
• Luminescence
  • Luminescence of solids
• Spectroscopy; its methods and techniques
  • High resolution spectroscopy
  • Multiphoton processes
• Laser optics and body of knowledge
  • Physics of lasing active media and interactions
  • Condensed matter surface under strong laser field
• Formation of optical image. Optical measurments and devices
  • Properties of optical materials
  • Adaptive optics
  • Tomography
• Physical backrounds of holography
• Optics of earth's atmosphere

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• Fundamentals of laser physics
  • Induced radiation
  • Collective and coherent phenomena; superradiance
  • Interaction of radiation with molecules
  • Physics of non-linear optical processes
• Optical quantum generators and amplifiers (lasers)
  • Lasers on free electrons
  • Gas lasers
  • Co2 Lasers
  • Lasers on glasses and polymers
  • Lasers on Nd Glass
  • Other gas and chemical lasers
  • Lasers on crystals
  • Lasers on semiconductors
  • Laser fluctuations
  • Resonators
• Control of light pulse parameters
• Control of laser light space distribution

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• Statistics of laser radiation
  • Quantum theory of electromagnetic field
  • Squeezed states
• Non-linear optical properties of media
• Frequency conversion by means of non-linear optics
• Stimulated light scattering
  • Stimulated Raman Scattering
• Optical phenomena in waveguides and thin films. integrated optical circuits

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• Laser light propagation
  • Self actions of light waves in non-linear media
• Laser light interaction with matter
  • Laser plasma
  • Matter in superstrong optical field
  • Action of laser light on condensed matter
    • Action of laser light on liquid
  • Action of laser light on atoms and molecules
  • Laser photochemistry
  • Sound generation by laser light
• Laser spectroscopy
  • Picosecond spectroscopy
• Physical Backrouns of laser applications
  • Signal processing. Optical computers
    • Optical modeling of neural networks
  • Biology and medicine