Study of excitation transfer Li
(3
D
→ 3
P
) occurring in optical collisions with rare gas atoms experimentally |
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Authors: | G Lindenblatt H Wenz W Behmenburg |
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Institution: | Institut für Experimentalphysik, Heinrich-Heine Universit?t Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany, DE
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Abstract: | By selective optical excitation of collision pairs and observation of the reemitted fluorescence information is obtained on
the role of the molecular channels involved in inelelastic collisions. As an example case we have studied experimentally the
Li( 3
D
→ 3
P) excitation transfer in Li(3D)X systems with X
=
Ne, Ar by means of the optical collision process Li
(2
P
) +
X
+
h
ν→
LiX
(3
D
Λ) →
Li
(3
P
, 3
D
) +
X where LiX
(3
D
Λ) collision molecules dissociate into Li(3P, 3D) atoms following laser excitation h
ν of Li
(2
P
) +
X pairs. For this purpose we measured the Li 3P/3D population ratio by the fluorescence from these levels as function of the
laser detuning Δν from the Li(2P-3D) transition and the rare gas pressure, and determined from this the 3P/3D excitation ratio B
(Δν) for single collision conditions. The experiments were performed using two step cw laser excitation of gaseous mixtures Li
+
X at temperatures around 600 K in the detuning range |Δν| ? 100 cm-1. The B
(Δν) profiles obtained display strong blue-red wing asymmetries both for Li
*
Ne and Li
*
Ar. This reflects different dissociation probabilities from the 3
D
Σ or 3
D
(Π,Δ) states that are initially prepared by blue wing or red wing excitation, respectively. The results are qualitatively discussed
in terms of new ab initio potentials for the two systems.
Received 23 February 2000 and Received in final form 5 July 2000 |
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Keywords: | PACS 32 70 -n Intensities and shapes of atomic spectral lines – 34 30 +h Intramolecular energy transfer intramolecular dynamics dynamics of van der Waals molecules |
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