Atoms, Molecules and Optical Physics 1

Ingolf V. Hertel Born 1941 in Dresden, 1967 Diplom in Physics, Uni Freiburg/Br., PhD thesis in Southampton UK, 1969 Dr. rer. nat. Uni Freiburg, Assistant Uni Mainz, 1970 Associate Professor Uni Kaiserslautern, 1978 Full Professor Experimental Physics FU Berlin, 1986 Full Professor Uni Freiburg, Extended Research Periods in Boulder CO USA and Orsay France, 1992 to 2009 Director at Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy in Berlin- Adlershof, 1993 to 2009 also Full Professor FU Berlin, since 2010 Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Senior Professor HU at Berlin. Claus-Peter Schulz Born 1953 in Berlin, 1984 Diplom in Physics TU Berlin, 1987 Dr. rer. nat. FU Berlin, Postdoc at JILA Boulder CO USA, 1988 Assistant Uni Freiburg, since 1993 Scientist at Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy in Berlin-Adlershof, Extended Research Periods at Universit e Paris-Nord and Orsay France as well as in Boulder CO USA.

• Basics.- Elements of Quantum Mechanics.- Periodic System and Removal of l-Degeneracy.- Non-Stationary Problems: Dipole Excitation.- Linewidths, Photoionization, and  More.- Fine Structure and LAMB Shift.- Helium and Other two Electron Systems.- Atoms in External Fields.- Hyperfine Structure.- Multi- Electron Atoms.- Appendices.