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Contents
Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Takayuki Umakoshi and Prabhat Verma
Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering: Basics, Theoretical
Background, and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Alireza Mazaheri Tehrani, Faezeh Mohaghegh, and Arnulf Materny
Optical Cavity and Laser-Based High-Resolution Spectroscopic
Techniques and Applications
Modern Experimental Techniques in Ultrafast Atomic
and Molecular Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
P. Madhusudhan, Rituparna Das, Pranav Bharadwaj,
Pooja Chandravanshi, Swetapuspa Soumyashree, Vinitha Nimma,
and Rajesh K. Kushawaha
Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Abhijit Maity, Mithun Pal, and Manik Pradhan
Improving the Signal Strength and Detection Limits
of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Rituparna Das, K. M. Muhammed Shameem, Vinitha Nimma,
Swetapuspa Soumyashree, Prashant Kumar, and Rajesh K. Kushawaha
Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Arup Lal Chakraborty and Anirban Roy
Quantum Cascade Laser Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Mithun Pal and Manik Pradhan
Photon Upconversion Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Priyam Singh, Prabhakar Singh, and S. K. Singh
Spectroscopic Techniques Important for Chemical Analytics and
Material Science
Application of X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy in Materials
for Energy Conversion and Environmental Remediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Ankita Mathur, Ravinder Kaushik, and Aditi Halder
Fluorescence Spectrometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
Dharmendra Pratap Singh, Sanjeev R. Inamdar, and Sandeep Kumar
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Theory
and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
Madeeha Rashid, Sachin Kumar Singh, and Chandan Singh
Contents
Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Takayuki Umakoshi and Prabhat Verma
Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering: Basics, Theoretical
Background, and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Alireza Mazaheri Tehrani, Faezeh Mohaghegh, and Arnulf Materny
Optical Cavity and Laser-Based High-Resolution Spectroscopic
Techniques and Applications
Modern Experimental Techniques in Ultrafast Atomic
and Molecular Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
P. Madhusudhan, Rituparna Das, Pranav Bharadwaj,
Pooja Chandravanshi, Swetapuspa Soumyashree, Vinitha Nimma,
and Rajesh K. Kushawaha
Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Abhijit Maity, Mithun Pal, and Manik Pradhan
Improving the Signal Strength and Detection Limits
of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Rituparna Das, K. M. Muhammed Shameem, Vinitha Nimma,
Swetapuspa Soumyashree, Prashant Kumar, and Rajesh K. Kushawaha
Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Arup Lal Chakraborty and Anirban Roy
Quantum Cascade Laser Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Mithun Pal and Manik Pradhan
Photon Upconversion Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Priyam Singh, Prabhakar Singh, and S. K. Singh
Spectroscopic Techniques Important for Chemical Analytics and
Material Science
Application of X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy in Materials
for Energy Conversion and Environmental Remediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Ankita Mathur, Ravinder Kaushik, and Aditi Halder
Fluorescence Spectrometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
Dharmendra Pratap Singh, Sanjeev R. Inamdar, and Sandeep Kumar
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Theory
and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
Madeeha Rashid, Sachin Kumar Singh, and Chandan Singh