Course Catalog 2009-2010 International Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Nikolai Tkachenko

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 3, 4, 5 : Wednesday 8 - 10, K4108

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to get familiar with basic principals used to build instruments for modern spectroscopy studies, and to discover great opportunities and principal limitations of the optical spectroscopy methods.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	An introduction to optics and optical measurements
2.	Advanced presentation of main techniques used in optical spectroscopy experiments, including steady state spectrophotometers and fluorimeters, and numerous time-resolved techniques such as femtosecond pump-probe and up-conversion, picosecond time correlated single photon counting, nanosecond flash photolysis and others.
3.	An overview of methods of analysis of the results of spectroscopy measurements

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Book	Optical Spectroscopy: Methods and Instrumentation	N. Tkachenko	978-0-444-52126-2				English

Prerequisites

Additional information about prerequisites
General courses on mathematics and physics (optics) must be taken before this course

Correspondence of content

Additional information

will be lectured in 2010

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1	The aim of the course is to get familiar with basic principals used to build instruments for modern spectroscopy studies, to show great possibilities and to discover principal limitations of the optical spectroscopy methods.	Lectures Excercises	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	04.11.2009
Modifier	Virpi Hämäläinen