激光场中锂原子发射的电离阈值以下低阶谐波的研究

利用单电子近似下锂原子精确的模型势,通过数值求解三维含时薛定谔方程的方法,研究了锂原子在激光场中发射低阶谐波的性质,研究结果表明,对于锂原子电离阈值以下的低阶谐波,除了通常的奇次谐波外,还有侧峰结构出现,运用同步压缩变换技术(SST)分析这些低阶谐波的辐射特性,我们发现这些侧峰是由原子在激光场中的缀饰态之间的跃迁和无场下激发态到基态的跃迁组成的,如果当激光脉冲结束后,仍有发射的侧峰,其位置与主峰之间的能量差可以用来估算原子激发态在激光场中的最大Stark移动.     

用激光激发原子荧光法诊断电感耦合等离子体中钙、铜和锰原子和离子的空间分布

本文使用excimer(XeCl)泵激光产生的染料激光作为原子荧光的激发源测定了电感耦合等离子体中Ca、Mn和Cu的基态原子和离子的径向分布轮廓。作为比较,利用发射光谱法并采用Abel转换技术。也测定了激发态原子和离子的径向分布轮廓。对于低流速喷雾器的等离子体系,在较低的观察高度处,激发态原子和离子的分布轮廓彼此极为相似,都在等离子体的中心部位有一极小值;然而对于基态原子和离子,除Ca离子外,则具有钟罩形的分布。     

原子法激光分离同位素中的光物理过程

介绍了原子法激光分离铀同位素的历史和现状，讨论了高激发态铀原子能级的参数（同位素移动，超精细结构、跃迁截面等）的测量和理论，强激光场中自电离态的行为，考虑了激光相干性之后的相互作用以及原子与多模激光相互作用的统计学问题等。     

铈原子偶宇称自电离态激光共振电离光谱

给出了利用三色三光子激光共振电离光谱技术研究铈原子偶宇称自电离态的结果。27个有较大跃迁截面高奇宇称激发态被用作第二激发态。第三台染料激光波长在634～670nm范围内扫描,发现了141个偶宇称自电离态能级。为了寻求最佳电离方案,对有较大自电离态能级跃迁截面的各电离路径进行了初步的判定,推荐了8条较佳的电离路径。     

硅（Si）原子高激发态能级自然辐射寿命的测量

能级的自然辐射寿命是确定跃迁几率和振子强度所需的重要参数. 目前,硅原子高激发态能级自然辐射参数的实验数据还很缺乏,因此本文运用时间分辨激光诱导荧光和激光烧蚀等离子体技术,测量了硅原子位于47351.55 ~ 63844.65 cm?1之间的14个高激发态能级的自然辐射寿命. 实验结果分布在8.7 ~ 43.4 ns之间,测量误差均小于10%,其中9个能级的结果属于首次报道. 本文结果与可靠的分支比数据相结合可确定相关能级的跃迁几率和振子强度实验值.     

超低频调制光缔合光谱的实验研究

通过激光冷却技术在磁光阱中俘获原子数约107,温度约200 μK,直径约400 μm的超冷铯原子,利用超冷铯原子光缔合方法制备了激发态的超冷铯分子。实验研究了光缔合光不同扫描速率对铯分子振转光谱分辨率的影响,发现光缔合光扫描速率较慢时,铯分子振转光谱分辨率较高。通过高灵敏的雪崩光电探测器探测冷原子荧光,获得了超冷铯分子第一激发态6S_1/2+6P_3/2离解限0-_g长程态高分辨振转光谱。为了实现受控拉曼光缔合制备超冷基态分子,光缔合激光频率需要锁定在原子-分子共振跃迁线,对超冷原子光缔合光谱进行了超低频波长调制,通过改变调制幅度和调制频率获得最优化的一阶微分信号,将该信号反馈回激光器,实现闭合环路稳频,满足了受控拉曼光缔合制备振转能级可控的基态分子的实验要求,该工作对研究受限空间中的超冷原子分子具有很重要的意义。     

精确研究NbN分子d~1∑~+—b~1∑~+电子态跃迁的P线系发射光谱

本文利用最近建立的能精确求解双原子分子P线系发射光谱的物理新公式,研究了NbN分子从电子态d~1∑~+向b~1∑~+电子态跃迁中(1,1)跃迁带的P支发射光谱.获得的计算结果不仅很好地重现了已知低转动态的实验谱线数据,同时也预言了该跃迁带包含转动量子数J=80在内的高振转激发态的精确P线系发射光谱.该方法在理论上为实验技术难以精确测量的双原子分子体系提供了一种获得精确的高激发态谱线数据的物理新方法.从而可以为那些需要NbN分子高激发态跃迁谱线的研究工作提供必要的数据.     

激光场中量子散射三重微分散射截面的研究

在量子散射框架下,对真实激光场引进多光子相互作用准静态过程模型,考虑束缚-自由跃迁中电磁场的规范一致性及电子与激光场长程相互作用的极限,研究激光场对量子散射过程中三重微分散射截面的影响。多数共面非对称情况下激光场对三重微分散射截面有提升作用,此外靶原子处于激发态时binary峰出现分裂,激光场对三重微分散射截面也有放大作用。     

铕原子4f~76p_(3/2)nd自电离态的光谱(英)

利用三步三色孤立实激发技术(ICE),系统地研究了铕原子4f~76p_(3/2)nd自电离态的光谱,同时首次研究了激光偏振对复杂原子的光谱的影响。为了研究铕原子4f~76p_(3/2)nd自电离态的光谱,首先设计并采用了不同的激发路径,分别将原子布居到同一高激发能域并探测它们在该能域的自电离光谱。通过比较这些光谱的异同并结合上述激发路径所对应的跃迁选择定则,便可唯一地确定这些高激发态的总角动量。为了研究激光偏振对铕原子的影响,设计并使用了两种偏振组合:三步激光都是垂直(πππ),三步激光都是平行(σσσ)(激光偏振方向相对于探测器垂直或平行)。为了得到有偏振影响的光谱,分别使3部激光器处于同一偏振,依次对铕原子进行激发,激发路径与终态同上。通过对同一路径不同偏振下的光谱的比较,发现仅能确定极少数的高激发态的总角动量,同时在光谱中一些峰独立于另一偏振光谱存在。     

光化学反应中氩气对激发态锂原子猝灭速率研究

本文对光化学法分离中氩气对2P激发态锂原子的碰撞猝灭速率进行研究.在弱激光作用下,通过对不同氩气压强下的锂原子蒸气吸收光谱和激发态锂原子的荧光发射光谱进行测量,得到氩气对2P激发态锂原子的猝灭速率常数为(12.29±0.92)×10-18m3·s-1.实验结果表明:在光化学锂同位素分离研究中,氩气对锂原子2P激发态的猝灭速率远小于2P激发态锂原子的自发辐射速率,碰撞猝灭效应对分离选择性的影响非常小,可以忽略不计.     

Lasers as Light Sources for Analytical Atomic Spectrometry

Abstract

Lasers have advantages compared to conventional light sources, which include high power, a monochromatic emission profile, stability, and rapid tuning across an atomic line. These advantages have resulted in superior analytical figures of merit and methods of background correction compared to conventional light sources. The most widely used lasers for atomic spectrometry include dye laser systems, optical parametric oscillator systems, and diode lasers. Three principal techniques employ lasers as light sources. Laser‐excited atomic fluorescence spectrometry (LEAFS) involves the use of laser light to excite atoms that emit fluorescence and serves as the analytical signal. Laser‐enhanced ionization (LEI) involves laser excitation of atoms to an excited state energy level at which collisional ionization occurs at a higher rate than from the ground state. Diode laser atomic absorption spectrometry (DLAAS) employs a DL as a source to excite atoms in an atom cell from the ground state to an excited state. The analytical signal is involves the ratio of the incident and transmitted beams. Recent applications of these techniques are discussed, including practical applications, hyphenated techniques employing laser‐induced plasmas, and work to characterize fundamental spectroscopic parameters.     

Strong,polarized Balmer-alpha fluorescence after resonant core excitation of HCl

Visible-UV fluorescence has been analyzed after resonant Cl 2p core excitation of HCl molecules. The dispersed fluorescence spectra are dominated by emissions from atomic fragments. In particular, an intense and polarized Balmer H(alpha) line is observed after photoexcitation of the 2p(-1)nl Rydberg states. The excited hydrogen atoms are efficiently produced in the resonant Auger process and the subsequent dissociation of high lying HCl+ states. The experimental results, complemented by a time-resolved measurement of the H(alpha) decay, point to a universal mechanism for the production of H( n = 3) atoms in the dissociation of innershell excited HCl molecules.     

Evaluation of a Continuous Flow Furnance Atomizer for Laser Excited Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometry

A system for continuous sample introduction into a ceramic atomization furnace for laser excited atomic fluorescence spectrometry (LEAFS) was developed. The system was evaluated using two different excitation sources, a nitrogen laser-pumped dye laser and a copper vapor laser-pumped dye laser. Pure aqueous Pb solutions were used for system optimization and analytical calibration curves. These curves were linear over at least three     

Correlation of momenta of electrons and the nucleus in atoms

The process of resonant multiphoton ionization of a hydrogen atom in the ground 1s state is studied by direct numerical integration of the nonstationary Schrödinger equation for a quantum system in an electromagnetic field. The dependence of photoionization probability on the radiation intensity is found to be nonmonotonic. It is established that the minima of ionization correspond to multiphoton resonances between the ground state and one of the excited (Rydberg) atomic states perturbed by the laser field. It is shown that ionization is suppressed due to rearrangement of Rydberg states in a strong electromagnetic field and is accompanied by efficient Raman Λ transitions, which connect a set of closely lying Rydberg states via the continuum.     

Inverse hook method for measuring oscillator strengths for transitions between excited atomic states [1]

We describe an effective new method to measure the oscillator strengths for transitions between the excited states of atoms. The oscillator strength is determined, by measuring changes in the angular distribution or polarization of fluorescence light emitted by atoms in the initial or final state of the transition of interest, after these atoms have been subject to the a.c. Stark shift of an off-resonant laser pulse. The physics of the situation is very similar to that of the conventional hook method with this difference: the roles of the atoms and the photons have been interchanged. We therefore call this new methodthe inverse hook method. The inverse hook method is relatively insensitive to the details of the atomic absorption lineshape and also to the temporal and spectral profile of the laser pulse. It yields absolute oscillator strengths and it is especially suitable for measurements of transitions between excited atomic states, including autoionizing states.     

Two-Photon Laser-Induced Fluorescence Spectra of Argon in a Grimm-Style Glow Discharge Tube

Two-photon excited laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) spectra of argon atom were successfully observed in a Grimm-style glow discharge tube, which has widely been applied to depth profiling of the elemental composition on various film-like samples by emission spectrometry. The LIF signal of an argon atomic line at 641.63 nm was observed when the glow discharge argon plasma was illuminated by a pulsed Ti:sapphire laser radiation of 7–10 mJ/pulse at 753.39 or 795.66 nm without focusing of the laser beam.     

State selective laser photodissociation of Tl2 at 337.1 nm by optogalvanic spectroscopy

This paper reports the first time achievement of laser photolysis of thallium dimers by single photon absorption of N₂-laser light at 337.1 nm resulting in a large population inversion of thallium 7 ²S excited state with respect to 6 ²P state. The photodissociation nitrogen laser pulse is spatially and temporally overlapped with the tunable dye laser pulse that is used for confirming the production of selectively excited thallium atoms. The dye laser excites the thallium atoms from 7 ²S state to high lying Rydberg states that collisionally ionize giving an ion-current signal which is subsequently processed by a box-car average/integrator and recorded on the chart recorder. The photodissociation of Tl₂ to Tl(7 ²S ) state demonstrates the existence of the molecular dissociative state 1g that is correlated with Tl 7 ²S +6 ²P states. A complete absence of 6 ²P state population among the photolysis products indicates a 100% prompt population inversion between 7 ²S and 6 ²P atomic states.     

Nonlinear polarization response of an atomic gas medium in the field of a high-intensity femtosecond laser pulse

Polarization response that appears in silver vapors in the field of a high-intensity femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser has been studied by the direct numerical integration of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. The regions of applicability have been determined for perturbation theory and the power series expansion of the polarization in the field. The contribution of free electrons to the response at the frequency of the interacting field has been calculated, which is due to the photoionization process and limits the Kerr effect. An important contribution of laser-excited atomic states to nonlinear atomic responses of neutral atoms has been demonstrated.     

Rb原子激发态碰撞能量转移

报道了用连续单模激光激发Rb原子至特定的激发态，从而观察激发态间的碰撞形成更高Rb原子激发态的实验结果.实验观察到Rb原子激发态的自发辐射与高激发态的碰撞形成通道之间的明显竞争，测得了高激发态的形成概率与激发光功率、原子蒸气温度及激光失谐的关系，所提出的碰撞能量转移机理较好地解释了实验结果. 关键词：     

In-source spectroscopy on astatine and radium for resonant laser ionization

At on-line isotope separator facilities, rare isotopes of radioactive elements such as astatine, radium or polonium are demanded for fundamental research on nuclear structure. These elements are generally suitable for a resonance ionization laser ion source, but more data on the atomic structure is necessary to develop efficient laser ionization schemes. Due to the missing stable reference isotopes spectroscopic investigation of the atomic structure can only be performed during on-line operation. At the Isotope Separator and ACcelerator (ISAC) facility at TRIUMF, the elements astatine and radium were investigated by in-source laser spectroscopy to optimize the laser ionization efficiency. For astatine, laser spectroscopy was performed to search for high lying bound states as well as for auto-ionizing resonances. This led to the identification of four new high lying bound states of odd parity, while no auto-ionizing resonances were observed in the investigated region. Furthermore, the feasibility and the impact of laser ionization on the yield of radium isotopes was investigated using an activated target after proton irradiation.