O6 · Light-matter interaction
A 32-module path through o6 · light-matter interaction, in study order from foundations to the frontier.
Modules
- Einstein A and B Coefficients
- Spontaneous Emission
- Stimulated Emission
- Resonant Absorption
- Detailed Balance and the Planck Spectrum
- Electric Dipole Approximation
- Transition Dipole Moment
- Selection Rules for Dipole Transitions
- Oscillator Strength
- Thomas-Reiche-Kuhn Sum Rule
- Radiative Lifetime and Natural Linewidth
- Lorentzian Line Shape
- Doppler Broadening and Gaussian Line Shape
- Voigt Profile
- Collisional and Pressure Broadening
- Homogeneous versus Inhomogeneous Broadening
- Absorption Cross Section
- Semiclassical Two-Level Atom
- Rotating Wave Approximation
- Rabi Oscillations
- Rabi Frequency and Generalized Rabi Frequency
- Bloch Vector and Bloch Sphere
- Optical Bloch Equations
- Density Matrix Formalism
- Populations and Coherences
- Relaxation Times T1 and T2
- Power Broadening and Saturation
- Saturation Intensity
- Steady-State Excited Population and Fluorescence
- AC Stark Shift and Dressed States
- Multipole Transitions Beyond the Dipole
- Local Field Corrections and the Clausius-Mossotti Relation