TY - JOUR
T1 - Transient absorption in a cadmium monoiodine laser discharge
AU - Greene, D. P.
AU - Eden, J. G.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledget he expert technical as-sistanceo f D. Watterson,Y . Moroz and K. Kuehl. This work was supportedb y the National Science Foundation (J. Aller) under grant ECS 83-09641a nd the Army ResearchO ffice (B. Guenther) under grant DAAG-2983-K-0108.
PY - 1985/3/15
Y1 - 1985/3/15
N2 - Transient absorption spectroscopy has been used to examine the active region of an ultraviolet-preionized, discharge pumped cadmium monoiodide (114CdI) laser. Having an active length of 50 cm and a gas mixture composed of He, N2 and 114CdI2 vapor, the discharge was probed by a short pulse (∼0.6 μs) Xe lamp in conjunction with an optical multichannel analyzer. In addition to the 53P → 63S1 lines of Cd, CdH molecules were observed in absorption (X2Σ → A2Π) but not in emission. Also, a broad band exhibiting distinct undulatory structure and peaking near 454 nm is reported and tentatively attributed to CdI.
AB - Transient absorption spectroscopy has been used to examine the active region of an ultraviolet-preionized, discharge pumped cadmium monoiodide (114CdI) laser. Having an active length of 50 cm and a gas mixture composed of He, N2 and 114CdI2 vapor, the discharge was probed by a short pulse (∼0.6 μs) Xe lamp in conjunction with an optical multichannel analyzer. In addition to the 53P → 63S1 lines of Cd, CdH molecules were observed in absorption (X2Σ → A2Π) but not in emission. Also, a broad band exhibiting distinct undulatory structure and peaking near 454 nm is reported and tentatively attributed to CdI.
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U2 - 10.1016/0030-4018(85)90169-5
DO - 10.1016/0030-4018(85)90169-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0022026713
VL - 53
SP - 263
EP - 268
JO - Optics Communications
JF - Optics Communications
SN - 0030-4018
IS - 4
ER -