Tunable Gas Lasers Utilizing Ground State Dissociation

Abstract

Experimental and theoretical studies of the spectral distribution of fluorescence and absorption in the far wings of alkali resonance lines broadened by rare gas atoms will be used as a basis for the prediction of approximate values for the laser gain in such mixtures and in Xe2, i.e., ground state dissociation lasers. This discussion makes use of the quasistatic theory of spectral line broadening which relates the observed fluorescence intensity to the intermolecular potentials for the bound excited state and the dissociating ground state of the molecule.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 15, 1972
Accession Number
AD0750156

Entities

People

  • Arthur V. Phelps

Organizations

  • JILA

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption
  • Absorption Coefficients
  • Dissociation
  • Energy
  • Equations
  • Frequency
  • Ground State
  • Ionization
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Measurement
  • Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Potential Energy
  • Radiation
  • Scattering
  • Spectra
  • Spectral Lines

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers