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Persistent Spectral Hole-Burning:

(Number (ISBN

3540186077

(Number (ISBN

3642832903

(Number (ISBN

9783540186076

(Number (ISBN

9783642832901

Number

b574399

Title Proper

Persistent Spectral Hole-Burning:

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[Book]

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Science and Applications

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by W.E. Moerner.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berlin, Heidelberg

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1988

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(xiv, 315 pages 146 illustrations)

Series Title

Topics in current physics, 44.

Text of Note

Introduction --; Basic Principles and Methods of Persistent Spectral Hole-Burning --; Photochemical Hole-Burning in Electronic Transitions --; Persistent Spectral Hole-Burning in Inorganic Materials --; Two-Level System Relaxation in Amorphous Solids as Probed by Nonphotochemical Hole-Burning in Electric Transitions --; Persistent Infrared Spectral Hole-Burning for Impurity Vibrational Modes in Solids --; Frequency Domain Optical Storage and Other Applications of Persistent Spectral Hole-Burning --; Subject Index.

Text of Note

This book describes the underlying scientific fundamentals and principal phenomena associated with persistent spectral hole-burning in solids, and presents an overview of possible future applications to optical storage of digital data and optical signal processing. Organization of the material is by the general physical mechanism responsible for the formation of persistent spectral holes. After a description of the basic principles and methods of hole-burning, with examples from photochemical processes in crystalline and amorphous hosts, the unusual proton tunneling phenomena that occur in hydrogen-bonded polymers and glasses are described. Persistent spectral hole-burning in inorganic materials due either to photoionization or to photophysical effects is then summarized, followed by a detailed discussion of nonphotochemical hole-burning mechanisms for electronic transitions in amorphous solids. The book concludes with a description of potential applications to data storage and optical processsing using frequency-domain, holographic, and electric field techniques. Readers of this volume will gain a detailed appreciation of both the generality of the persistent spectral hole-burning phenomenon and the power of the technique in studying microscopic dynamics and mechanisms of phototransformation in low-temperature solids.

Crystallography.

Physical organic chemistry.

Physics.

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edited by W.E. Moerner.

W E Moerner

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