TY - BOOK ID - 77880475 TI - Optically polarized atoms : understanding light-atom interactions AU - Auzinsh, Marcis AU - Budker, Dmitry AU - Rochester, Simon M. PY - 2010 SN - 1282768166 9786612768163 0191576549 9780191576546 9780199565122 0199565120 9780198705024 PB - Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Atoms. KW - Physical optics. KW - Polarization (Light) KW - Rotation of the plane of polarization KW - Electromagnetic waves KW - Optics KW - Wave-motion, Theory of KW - Optical rotation KW - Stereochemistry KW - Optics, Physical KW - Chemistry, Physical and theoretical KW - Matter KW - Polarization KW - Constitution KW - Atomes. KW - Optique physique. KW - Polarisation (lumière) KW - Atomes KW - Polarisation (lumière) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77880475 AB - This book is addressed at upper-level undergraduate and graduate students involved in research in atomic, molecular, and optical Physics. It will also be useful to researchers practising in this field. It gives an intuitive, yet sufficiently detailed and rigorous introduction to light-atom interactions with a particular emphasis on the symmetry aspects of the interaction, especially those associated with the angular momentum of atoms and light. The book will enable readers to carry out practical calculations on their own, and is richly illustrated with examples drawn from current research topics, such as resonant nonlinear magneto-optical effects. The book comes with a software package for a variety of atomic-physics calculations and further interactive examples that is freely downloadable from the book's web page, as well as additional materials (such as power-point presentations) available to instructors who adopt the text for their courses. ER -