Kinetics and Structure of Excited States.

Abstract

The objective of this research program was to reach an understanding of excited atom processes by a systematic experimental study of their spectroscopy, interactions with strong fields, and collisions. The method used is laser excitation of excited atoms in conjunction with a variety of state selective detection techniques developed in our laboratory. Although it is unusual to study spectroscopy and collisions in the same research program, it has proved to be a very enlightening approach. The following section of this report summarizes the accomplishments. For reference, a list of the scientific papers published under this contract is included. These papers embody the main conclusions of our study.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA151902

Entities

People

  • T. F. Gallagher

Organizations

  • SRI International

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Angular Momentum
  • Atoms
  • Classification
  • Collisions
  • Contracts
  • Detection
  • Dye Lasers
  • Electric Fields
  • Frequency
  • Microwave Spectroscopy
  • Momentum
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Radio Frequency
  • Rydberg Atoms
  • Security
  • Spectroscopy

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers