Measurement of the probability of the transition P20 (00 °1–10 °0) in CO2 and impact broadening in collisions with CO2, N2, and He

We measured the dependence of the absorption, coefficient on the pressure for the vibrational-rotational transition P20 (00 °1–10 °0) in CO₂ using a CO₂ laser as a light source. We consider the question of the systematic error due to the contribution of impact broadening, when finding the probability from the experimental absorption. The refined value of the transition probability A_{10 °0.20}^{00 °1.19}=0.169 sec^–1. We obtain the values of the impact half-widths for collisions of the type CO₂-CO₂, CO₂-N₂, CO₂-He, the values of which at J=300 °K are respectively 3.28, 2.74, and 2.27 MHz/torr.Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 6, pp. 24–28, November–December, 1972.The authors thank A. K. Konyukhov for interest in the work and for valuable discussions.