• Provides extensive and thoroughly exhaustive coverage of precision laser spectroscopy
• Presents chapters written by recognized experts in their individual fields
• Topics covered include cold atoms, cold molecules, methods and techniques for production of cold molecules, optical frequency standards based on trapped single ions, etc

• Applicable for researchers and graduate students of optical physics and precision laser spectroscopy

K. Gao, M. Zhan, WIPM, CAS Wuhan; W. Liu, IoP, CAS Beijing; J. Yin, Y. Chen, ECNU, Shanghai.

Being the most active field in modern physics, Optical Physics has developed many new branches and interdisciplinary fields overlapping with various classical disciplines. This series summarizes the advancements of optical physics in the past twenty years in the following fields: High Field Laser Physics, Precision Laser Spectroscopy, Nonlinear Optics, Nanophotonics, Quantum Optics, Ultrafast Optics, Condensed Matter Optics, and Molecular Biophotonics.