TY  - BOOK
AU  - Auzinsh,Marcis
AU  - Ferber,Ruvin
TI  - Optical polarization of molecules
T2  - Cambridge monographs on atomic, molecular, and chemical physics
SN  - 9780511564093 (ebook)
AV  - QC165.3 .A99 1995
U1  - 539/.6 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Molecules
KW  - Optical properties
KW  - Molecular structure
KW  - Gases
KW  - Angular momentum (Nuclear physics)
KW  - Polarization (Light)
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - This book explains the theory and methods by which gas molecules can be polarized by light, a subject of considerable importance for what it tells us about the electronic structure of molecules and properties of chemical reactions. Starting with a brief review of molecular angular momentum, the text goes on to consider resonant absorption, fluorescence, photodissociation and photoionization, as well as collisions and static fields. A variety of macroscopic effects are considered, among them angular distribution and the polarization of emitted light, ground state depopulation, laser-induced dichroism, the effect of collisions and external magnetic and electric field effects. Most examples in the book are for diatomic molecules, but symmetric-top polyatomic molecules are also included. The book concludes with a short appendix of essential formulae, tables for vector calculus, spherical functions, Wigner rotation matrices, Clebsch-Gordan coefficients, and methods for expansion over irreducible tensors
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511564093
ER  -