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.
Understanding of principles of modern optical spectroscopy including ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy; knowledge of what and how can be studied by optical spectroscopy; ability to evaluate key features and parameters of spectroscopy instruments, e.g. for single molecule detection or femtosecond time resolution.
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.