Energetics and Collision Dynamics of Electronic Transition Lasers.

Abstract

Quantum mechanical studies, including both ab initio configuration-interaction expansions and density functional calculations, have been carried out to examine the electronic structure, radiative lifetimes and collisional branching ratios for molecules of importance in studies of electronic transition lasers. These studies have included an analysis of the energetics of Mg/Mg0 excitation transfer reactions, the spectroscopy of the low-lying electronic states of the I2 and I3 molecules and the mechanisms of the I2/02 1 Delta g dissociation kinetics. In addition, a study of the electronic structure of the NaMg system was carried out to evaluate its potential as a excimer laser.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA135894

Entities

People

  • H. H. Michels
  • R. H. Hobbs

Organizations

  • United Technologies Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Chemical Lasers
  • Chemical Reaction Properties
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Collisions
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Dissociation
  • Dynamics
  • First Principles Calculations
  • Ionization
  • Lasers
  • Metal Oxides
  • Noble Gases
  • Physics
  • Spin-Orbit Interaction

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics
  • Quantum Chemistry

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers
  • Microelectronics
  • Quantum Computing