Principles Of Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy (Broché)

"Professor Mukamel, a well known and accomplished theoretical physical chemist, has written an up-to-date and comprehensive monograph/textbook on nonlinear optical spectroscopy. Although the focus is theoretical, the attention paid to describing modern experiments is noteworthy. This book is unusual in its completeness: the theoretical development assumes only a standard quantum mechanics course, but goes all the way to the Most recent developments; the attention to experiments and what can be learned about molecular dynamics from them is as deep and definitive as the theory. I can recommend this book wholeheartedly both as a textbook in a graduate course in modern fast spectroscopy, and as a reference monograph for researchers in the field." -Robert J. Sibley, MIT in the Journal of the American Chemical Society "Mukamel has developed a powerful and intuitively satisfying description of dynamical nonlinear spectroscopy which allows the enormous variety of nonlinear spectroscopies to be described and analyzed on a common footing. A student who bas mastered graduate quantum mechanics should be able to cope with this material. This book is likely to be essential reading for workers in a wide variety of fields impinging on the dynamics of complex, condensed phase systems. The book will be important both for the design of new experiments as well as their analysis. Mukamel is to be congratulated on this superb book, and his publisher deserves credit for keeping the price within the reach of graduate students and their professors.- -Graham R. Fleming, University of California, Berkeley, and Director, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory "This book is mandatory for workers at the frontier of condensed phase nonlinear spectroscopy. The author is uniquely capable of putting this material together. The book is clearly a work of love. It is complete, deep, and authoritative. The writing bas the clarity and coherence expected for a single-author work." -John C. Wright, University of Wisconsin, in Analytical Chemistry "The book is well-organized and contains many references and an extensive index. It is ideal for graduate and post-doctorate students. It is also invaluable for senior staff wishing to become educated on the theoretical state-of-the-art in this field. Stimulated by the recent developments in ultrafast laser technology, progress in the field of nonlinear optical spectroscopy occurs at an increasing pace. Because of Mukamel's book there is hope that scientists worldwide will speak a common language, easing communication and stimulating cooperation." -Douwe A. Wiersma, University of Groningen, in Optics and Photonics News