Module A2.2 - Light Matter Interaction

Time

Mondays: 12.15 pm – 13.45 pm

Thursdays 12.15 pm – 13.45 pm

13.04. – 06.07.2026

09.04. – 09.07.2026

Location

August-Bebel-Str. 4: SR 103 (Thursdays)
Carl-Zeiß-Straße 3 / SR 317 (Mondays)

Date

Lecturer / Location

Subject and content

09.04.26 (Thu)

Neugebauer
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Course Introduction
Short revision MO theory
UV/Vis absorption

• Electronic Chromophores

13.04.26 (Mo)

Neugebauer

• Franck-Condon principle
• Polarimetry and Circular Dichroism

16.04.26 (Thu)

• Stokes shift
• Life time, Quantum yield, quenching
• Excitation and emission spectroscopy
• Steady-state fluorescence
• Fluorochromes

• quenching
• Excitation and emission spectroscopy
• Steady-state fluorescence

• FRET
• 2Photon-Fluorescence

• Amplitude, phase
• Wavelength, wave vector, wavenumber
• Energy, momentum
• Polarization states

• Gauss’s Law for electric and magnetic fields
• Faraday’s Law
• Ampere-Maxwell Law
• Wave equation of light

• Dipole moment, polarization
• Permittivity and dispersion
• Lorentz and Drude dispersion model
• Clausius-Mossotti equation
• Refractive index
• Frequency-dependent optical transition
• Optical responses of nanoparticles

• Reflection and refraction
• Radiation of a dipole

• Derivation of Beer-Lambert Law
• Limitation of Beer-Lambert Law

• Elastic scattering & dipole scattering
• Scattering and light polarization
• Scattering and particle size
• Scattering of metallic nanoparticles
• Plasmonic resonance of nanoparticles

• Principle of Laser, Laser types
• Application of lasers: Laser tweezer

• Harmonic oscillator
• Normal modes, Selection rules

• FTIR

• Raman scattering
• Raman active modes