Rotational Energy Transfer in Highly Vibrationally Excited Hydrogen Fluoride and Deuterium Fluoride.

Abstract

Overtone vibration-laser double resonance measurements have provided new data on vibrational and rotational relaxation in HF(v=2). These experiments determine the magnitudes of the total vibrational relaxation rate constants for HF (v=1 and 2) as well as their temperature dependences. Detailed analysis yields the variation of the branching between competing V-V and V-TR pathways. Rotational relaxation data come from these measurements as well. The temporal evolution of individual rotational states observed in the double resonance studies provides level-to-level energy transfer rate constants when analyzed using an iterative fitting scheme which incorporates scaling relations among the rate constants. Originator supplied keywords include: Energy transfer, Rotational relaxation, Laser, Hydrogen, Fluoride, Deuterium fluoride.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 08, 1985
Accession Number
ADA152003

Entities

People

  • F. F. Crim

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Angular Momentum
  • Chemical Lasers
  • Chemistry
  • Collisions
  • Deuterium
  • Dye Lasers
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Fluorides
  • Hydrogen
  • Inelastic Scattering
  • Infrared Pulses
  • Infrared Radiation
  • Lasers
  • Liquid Dye Lasers
  • Measurement
  • Molecules

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers