Calculation of Potential Energy Curves for Metal Oxides and Halides.
Abstract
The research performed under this contract was directed toward the calculation of the electronic structure and radiative transition probabilities for certain diatomic metal oxides and halides which are candidate visible/UV laser systems. The objectives were to uncover systems having a low-lying excited state with a reasonably long (>10 microsec) radiative lifetime and situated energetically such that an inversion of population with respect to the dominant transitions to the ground state was possible. The systems under investigation to date include the group IIA metal oxides (BeO-BaO), the group IVA metal oxides (CO-PbO), NF, SiF, AlF and the thirteen electron sequence: N2(+), CN, CO and BeF. These latter systems have a common chemistry of their electronically excited states. Among these molecules the systems BaO, BO, NF, SnO, SiF and AlF were chosen for detailed study. Their value as candidate visible/UV laser systems has been analyzed.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1977
- Accession Number
- ADA043241
Entities
People
- H. Harvey Michels
Organizations
- United Technologies Corporation