The nature of light and its interaction with matter
Författare
Redaktör
- Lars Olof Björn
Summary, in English
This chapter provides a physical background to the following ones. It describes the particle and wave properties of light and the diffraction, polarization, refraction, reflection, and absorption of light and statistics of photon emission and absorption. Planck’s law of heat radiation is described in various mathematical and graphical ways. One section is devoted to a simplified description of the propagation of light in absorbing and scattering media. The final sections are devoted to interactions between light and matter: spectra of and energy levels in atoms and molecules, the relation between absorption and emission spectra, the molecular geometry of absorption and emission, and the transfer of electronic excitation energy between molecules, including the Förster mechanism, triplet states, and the photobiologically important properties of the dioxygen molecule
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2015
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1-20
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Photobiology: The Science of Light and Life (3rd ed.)
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Biological Sciences
Nyckelord
- particle
- wave
- interference
- diffraction
- polarization
- photon statistics
- heat radiation
- refraction
- reflection
- scattering
- spectrum
- quantum
- energy transfer
- Förster mechanism
- surface plansmon
- coherence
- orbital angular momentum
- singlet oxygen
Status
Published
Projekt
- Photobiology
Forskningsgrupp
- Photobiology
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-1-4939-1467-8 (print)
- ISBN: 978-1-4939-1468-5 (eBook)