Entry requirements

Physical chemistry at least 8 credit points and Theoretical chemistry 10 credit points or equivalent.

Aims

This course will give the students basic experimental and theoretical knowledge about time resolved spectroscopy with emphasis on femtosecond spectroscopy.

Content

Experimental methods: Absorption, Fluorescensce Sum frequency generation, Pump-probe, Photon echo, Hole burning, Resonance Raman.

Ultrashort light pulses-manipulation and progagation.

Theoretical methods: Born-Oppenheimer. Potential energy surfaces (PES), Schrödinger equation, Heisenberg and interaction pictures, Time evolution. Numerical methods.

Density matrices: Liouville equation, density matrices, Feynman diagrams, time ordering, ensambles, two level systems relaxtion, phase matching.

Instruction

Lecutres, laboratory work, and take-home exercises.

Assessment

Hand-in exercises during the course and a written examination at the end of the course. Passed laboratory course is also requred.