Chemical Generation and Deactivation of Oxygen Singlet Delta (Generation Chimique et Desactivation de l'Oxygene Singulet Delta)

Abstract

The construction and operation of a chemical generator of O2(a1 Delta g) are described. This system could be readily modified to drive a purely chemical iodine laser operating at 1.315 micrometer. Optical techniques were developed for estimating the excited oxygen concentration that arrives at a downstream cavity at total O2 pressures from 1 to 6 torr. Mechanisms that explain the deactivation of excited O2 in the gas stream are discussed. A value for the singlet delta energy-pooling rate constant is determined from the measured O2(a1 Delta g) concentrations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA135392

Entities

People

  • S. A. Barton

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Chemical Oxygen Iodine Lasers
  • Chemistry
  • Collisions
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Equations
  • Flow Rate
  • Hydrogen
  • Lasers
  • Low Resolution
  • Measurement
  • Molecules
  • Oxygen

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers