Investigations of Photochemistry Using Holography and Photoacoustic Spectroscopy.
Abstract
The work supported by this contract had as its primary goal the development of a holographic technique for the investigation of the details of photochemical reactions. The technique involves imbedding a molecule whose photochemistry we wish to study into a polymer or other host material. By exposing this system to the radiation from interfering laser beams one can produce a hologram in the material, By following the growth in scattering efficiency of the hologram as a function of time, one can study the underlying photochemistry producing the holographic technique is particularly useful in investigating two-photon photochemical process, i.e., processes that require the stepwise absorption of two photons.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 28, 1984
- Accession Number
- ADA146637
Entities
People
- D. M. Burland
- G. C. Bjorklund
- H. Coufal
Organizations
- International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)