On the splitting of the CO 1π level in the chemisorption system CO/Ni(111): substrate or lateral interaction?

LCGTO Xα model cluster calculations have been carried out to rationalize the shape of the CO 1π band of the chemisorption system CO/Ni(111) observed in angular resolved photoemission. The splitting induced by substrate interaction at twofold bridging sites (0.4 eV) is much smaller than the value deduced from experiment (1.2 eV). From calculations on (CO) _n clusters lateral adsorbate interaction is estimated to cause a sizable broadening of the 1π band (1.2eV, in satisfactory agreement with experiment), but essentially no splitting (?0.1 eV). Therefore, rehybridisation due to local interaction does not seem to suffice as an explanation for the observed shape of the CO 1π band.     

About the fluorine chemistry in MCVD: The mechanism of fluorine incorporation into SiO2 layers

Fluorine incorporation during the deposition of silica layers is studied under MCVD conditions using C₂F₃Cl₃ as fluorine source. The experimental results are compared with known models of the incorporation mechanism. It is found that a gas/solid equilibrium during the consolidation step determines the final fluorine content of the layers.     

Frequency-dependent optical pumping in atomic ?-systems

We consider the effects of optical pumping on the conversion of laser-frequency modulation into intensity modulation by an atomic absorption line in a vapor of alkali atoms driven in a ?-configuration. It is found that, due to optical pumping in combination with the excited-state hyperfine structure, the absorption line shape is distorted substantially as the Fourier frequency of the FM is changed. The most significant effect of the distortion is a shift of the apparent line center, which depends on how the frequency of the modulation compares with the optical pumping rate. This shift has implications for locking lasers to atomic transitions and also for FM-AM noise conversion in atomic vapors.     

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High-contrast coherent population trapping resonances using four-wave mixing in 87Rb

We demonstrate very high-contrast coherent population trapping(1) (CPT) resonances by using four-wave mixing in (87)Rb atoms. In the experiment, we take advantage of the spectral overlap between F=2-->F(?) and F=3-->F(?) optical resonances on the D1 line of (87)Rb and (85)Rb atoms, respectively, to eliminate the DC-light background from the CPT resonance signal. We observe a CPT resonance with a contrast in the range of 90%, compared with a few percent achieved by alternative methods.