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The timing of the emission is clearly dependent on the system in use. For example, if pumping is relatively slow and stimulated emission is fast, then the emergent beam of laser light will appear as a short pulse (subsequent lasing must await sufficient population inversion). This behavior is... 

Figure 7.25 shows the set-up. The electric field vector of an incident beam of laser light can be decomposed into parallel and perpendicular vectors, Ep and s, where the orientation is given with respect to the plane defined by the incident and... 

On this subject notice that, possibly combined with various heating methods, several physical effects may be considered which allow free flotation of solid and even liquid matter. Materials may be levitated for instance by a jet of gas, by intense sound waves or by beams of laser light. Conductors levitate in strong radiofrequency fields, charged particles in alternating electric fields, magnets above superconductors or vice versa. A review on levitation in physics with the description of several techniques and their principles and applications was made by Brandt (1989). 

If an atomic transition is optically pumped by a beam of laser radiation having the appropriate frequency, the population in the upper state can be considerably enhanced along the path of the beam. This causes an intensification of the spontaneous emission from this state, which contains information about the conditions within the pumped region, since the exponential decay time for the intensified emission depends upon both the electron number density and the electron temperature. The latter can be obtained from the intensity ratio of the fluorescence excited from two different lower levels, if local thermal equilibrium is assumed. This method has been dis-... 

We have now described a system in which one or more narrow beams of laser light of well-defined wavelength are used to illuminate a cell, and the light scattered by the cell and emitted by various fluorochromes in or on that cell provide signals that are registered on a group of photodetectors. From our description of the optical bench in Chapter 3 (refer back to Fig. 3.7), we should recall that there are... 

Figure 3.1 Images of a fluorescently labeled, 64.6-/ira-long DNA molecule tethered at one end to a small (0.3 /rm) sphere that is held in place by optical tweezers, a focused beam of laser light (see Section 1.6.1). The solvent flows past the DNA and stretches it out at velocities of 1, 2,3,4, 5,7,10, A2, 15, 20, 30, 40, and 50 )um/sec, from left to right. (Reprinted with permission from Perkins et al, Science, 268 83 Copyright 1995, American Association for the Advancement of Science.)...

Another type of instrument that has been made possible by the availability of lasers is known as the time-of-flight instrument. Here, a narrow focused beam of laser light explores an area of a suspension. The size of the particles in suspension is measured by the time it takes for a laser beam to pass across the profile of the fine particle. Sophisticated optical recording devices and electronic editors are used to generate the size distribution data from the information generated by the device. 

An optical mouse looks the same as any other computer mouse, except there is no mouse ball. Instead, the optical mouse uses a special mouse pad and a beam of laser light (Figure 6.6). The beam of light shines onto the mouse pad and reflects back to a sensor in the mouse. The mouse pad has small lines crossing it that can reflect the light into the sensor in different ways. It is in this fashion that the optical mouse detects direction and speed of movements. This mouse will not work without the special mouse pad. 

Researchers recently reported the first optical atomic trap. In this device, beams of laser light replace the physical walls of conventional containers. The laser beams are tightly focused. They briefly (for 0.5 s) exert enough pressure to confine 500 sodium atoms in a volume of 1.0 X 10 m. The temperature of this gas is 0.00024 K, the lowest temperature ever reached for a gas. Compute the root-mean-square speed of the atoms in this confinement. 

Q.29.5 Compared to the focal point of a beam of laser light formed by a convex thin lens at 760 nm, will the focal point of a 460 nm laser be different Where will the focal point(s) of the two lasers be relative to one another What is the relevance of your answer to microscopy ... 

Irradiation with a single beam of laser light at the mean of these two frequencies should thus lead to a synergistic two-photon process, involving both the cooperative and distributive channels, in which both species are simultaneously excited. The narrow bandwidth of any standard laser source should ensure that neither species is independently excited by a conventional single-photon absorption process. Evidence for cooperative two-photon absorption is then provided by detection of the decomposition product CO resulting from the reactions ... 

Figure 16.20 FAB and MALDI techniques, (a) The principle of fast-atom beam formation with xenon (b) The formation of fast atoms of argon in a collision chamber and subsequent bombardment of the sample by this atom beam, usually of 5-10 kV kinetic energy (c) MALDI or ionization by effect of illumination with a beam of laser generated light onto a matrix containing a small proportion of analyte. The impact of the photon is comparable with that of a heavy atom. Through a mechanism, as yet not fuUy elucidated, desorption and photoionization of the molecules is produced. These modes of ionization by laser firing are particularly useful for the study of high molecular weight compounds, especially in biochemistry, though not for routine measurements.

If the crystal is close to, but not exactly at, the phase matching orientation relative to k(u> 1), then a weak 2aq beam will be generated propagating at a small angle relative to k(u 1). Minimization of this deviation angle provides a basis for servo-correction of the crystal orientation to maximize SHG. It also ensures that, as uq is scanned, the 2u>i beam pointing direction is constant, which is good news for multiple resonance schemes that require careful superposition of several beams of laser radiation. 

Laser radiation is monochromatic and the output beams of lasers are highly collimated. With a laser as the excitation source larger fluorescence signal levels are observed and nonlinear excitation is possible. 

In a light-scattering experiment a monochromatic beam of laser light impinges on a sample and is scattered into a detector placed at an angle Q with respect to the transmitted beam (cf. Fig. 1.2.1). The intersection between the incident beam and the scattered beam defines a volume V, called the scattering volume or the illuminated volume. 

This can be done in various ways. One popular way is hy flow cytometry. In a flow cytometer, particles such as cells in an aqueous suspension are passed through a beam of laser hght, and their fluorescence is measured. Therefore, you could take a sample of cells, make holes in their plasma membranes with a low concentration of a suitable detergent, and incubate them with a dye such as propidium iodide, which fluoresces when it binds to DNA. Cells in the Gq and Gj phases of the cell cycle have the normal (2 ) amounts of DNA while cells in the Gj and M phases have twice the normal An) amount. Therefore Gj and M phase cells will have twice the propidium iodide fluorescence of cells in the Gq and G, phases. CeUs in the S phase, during which DNA synthesis occurs, will have intermediate fluorescence levels. 

A certain disadvantage of collinear CARS in gases is the spatial overlap of the two parallel incident beams with the signal beam. This overlap must be separated by spectral filters. This disadvantage can be overcome by the BOX CARS technique [354], where the pump beam of laser Li k, (e>i) is split into two parallel beams that are focused by a lens into the sample (Fig. 3.21b), where the directions of the... 

In this section we describe a preliminary set of experiments in which doublequantum photoemission was observed from a sodium surface simultaneously illuminated by two superimposed beams of laser radiation. While ac photomixing terms were not observed in these experiments, the measurements are consistent with the theoretical calculations given in Section 7.2.2. 

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