Module 1:
Atomic and molecular spectroscopy -general concepts; lifetime measurements. Experimental techniques in optical spectroscopy: monochromators and spectrometers; light sources; photon detectors; spectral and radiometric calibration of the detection set-up; Colored glass filters; neutral and interference filters; single photon detection . Experimental techniques used in x-ray spectroscopy.

Module 2:
Basics of Fourier Optics: wave equation in frequency and temporal domains, the plane wave spectrum, property of Fourier transform of a lens, an object truncation and Gibbs phenomenon, Fourier analysis and functional decomposition, coherence and Fourier transform , 4f correlator and applications (spatial filtering, correlation optics, computer-generated holograms, interferometry, atomic traps, quantum computation, phase contrast microscopy, Fraunholer and Fresnel diffraction).

- Artigos de revistas científicas
- F. Grum (Ed.), Optical Radiation Measurements, Academic Press, 1979.
- Parker, C. A., Photoluminescence of solutions: with applications to photochemistry and analytical chemistry, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1968.
- G. Vanasse (Ed.), Spectroscopic Techniques, Academic Press, 1977.
- W. Becker, Advanced Time-Correlated Single Counting Techniques, Springer Series in Chemical Physics , Vol. 81, Berlin, 2005.
- M.I. Lopes and V. Chepel, Rare Gas Liquid Detectors, in Electronic
Excitations in Liquified Rare Gases, Edited by W. Schmidt and E.
Illenberger, American Scientific Publishers, 2005, pp.331-385.