The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Sodium atoms
Here is a summary of the properties of the D lines of sodium atoms, which are frequently used in quantum optics.
For a very lengthy and complete materials on optics, one may consult this link:
ReplyDeletehttp://atomoptics.uoregon.edu/~dsteck/teaching/quantum-optics/quantum-optics-notes.pdf