Program Overview

University Program Information

Course Description

The University program is offered by Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics. The course ID is 2-FOL-215/22, and the course title is Optical Spectroscopy.

Course Details

• Academic Year: Not specified
• Credits: 3
• Recommended Semester: Not specified
• Educational Activities: 2 lectures
• Educational Level: II
• Required Prerequisites: None specified

Course Requirements

• Continuous assessment: individual work
• Exam: oral
• Indicative assessment scale:
  • A: 90%
  • B: 80%
  • C: 70%
  • D: 60%
  • E: 50%
• Weight of work during semester / final exam: 40/60

Learning Outcomes

The student will gain theoretical knowledge to master the principles of spectroscopy. They will acquire basic skills necessary for practical spectroscopic measurement and use of spectroscopy. The student will gain knowledge about the principles of spectroscopic methods, which can be used in practice in the optical diagnostics of gases and plasma.

Syllabus

• Basic principles of emission and absorption spectroscopy, databases with spectral constants
  • Identification of radiating resp. absorbing atoms and molecules according to available databases
  • Spectral line profile, natural width sp. lines, classical and quantum approach
  • Extension of spectral lines in plasma (Doppler, collision and Strake extension of spectral lines)
• Basics of molecular spectroscopy
  • Molecular spectrum theory
  • Rotational and vibrational energy
  • Classification of electronic states
  • Simulation of diatomic molecule / radical spectra
• Methods of spectroscopic diagnostics
  • From the value of intensity
  • From the width of the spectral line
  • From the shape of the molecular spectrum
  • Titration and actinometric method of determining the concentration of radicals
  • Determining the characteristic temperatures of the system from atomic and molecular spectra
  • Fully or partially resolved spectra
  • Simulation of molecular spectra
  • Comparison

Recommended Literature

• Molecular spectroscopy / Zuzana Chorvátová
• Laser spectroscopy: Basic concepts and instrumentation / Wolfgang Demtröder
• Spectropolarimetric diagnostics of gas strips / S. A. Kazancev, A. V. Subbotenko
• G. V. Marr: Plasma Spectroscopy

Language Requirements

• English

Grade Overview

• A: 69.7%
• B: 30.3%
• C: 0.0%
• D: 0.0%
• E: 0.0%
• FX: 0.0%
• Total number of assigned grades: 33

Lecturers

• prof. RNDr. Pavel Veis, CSc.
• doc. RNDr. Mário Janda, PhD.

Last Change

• 11.11.2024