Abstract
Perturbation theory for the interaction of light with a binary collisional system is applied to the calculation of line profiles, spontaneous emission rates and absorption or stimulated emission coefficients. For the usual radiation fields are perturber densities, this approximation is valid at all detunings Delta omega except the very narrow resonance region. Appropriate expansions of the total binary system wavefunctions give the emission and absorption profiles or rates, for atom-electron systems as well as for atom-atom systems, from the impact regime at small Delta omega up to the Born-Oppenheimer regime at very large Delta omega in collision-induced radiative transitions, the transitions being asymptotically allowed or forbidden. Emphasis is given to the proper averages and sums over initial and final states of the binary system which give rise to non-adiabatic effects. One shows that it is of crucial importance to include all dynamical effects during one collisional event before undertaking any calculation at small Delta omega where simultaneous collisions may occur.
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