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Continuous Wave. Used for eontinuous eleetronie signals in the radio-ffequeney range and eontinuous optieal signals. In opties the term is not quite uniformly used. Sometimes high-repetition rate mode-loeked lasers are ealled CW, although they emit a train of pulses. 

Each experimential values and the calculative values in Fig.7 and Fig.9 are almost corresponding except for the region of the echo height F/B rapidly decreases. This reason is thought that the experiment using a pulse wave but the calculative using a continuous wave. 

Much of the previous section dealt with two-level systems. Real molecules, however, are not two-level systems for many purposes there are only two electronic states that participate, but each of these electronic states has many states corresponding to different quantum levels for vibration and rotation. A coherent femtosecond pulse has a bandwidth which may span many vibrational levels when the pulse impinges on the molecule it excites a coherent superposition of all tliese vibrational states—a vibrational wavepacket. In this section we deal with excitation by one or two femtosecond optical pulses, as well as continuous wave excitation in section A 1.6.4 we will use the concepts developed here to understand nonlinear molecular electronic spectroscopy. 

In this approach one uses narrow-band continuous wave (cw) lasers for continuous spectroscopic detection of reactant and product species with high time and frequency resolution. Figure B2.5.11 shows an experimental scheme using detection lasers with a 1 MFIz bandwidth. Thus, one can measure the energy spectrum of reaction products with very high energy resolution. In practice, today one can achieve an uncertainty-limited resolution given by... 

Soper S A and Legendre B L Jr 1998 Single-molecule detection in the near-IR using continuous-wave diode laser... 

If spin contamination is small, continue to use unrestricted methods, preferably with spin-annihilated wave functions and spin projected energies. Do not use spin projection with DFT methods. When the amount of spin contamination is more significant, use restricted open-shell methods. If all else fails, use highly correlated methods. 

The efficiency of a helium—neon laser is improved by substituting helium-3 for helium-4, and its maximum gain curve can be shifted by varying the neon isotopic concentrations (4). More than 80 wavelengths have been reported for pulsed lasers and 24 for continuous-wave lasers using argon, krypton, and xenon lasing media (111) (see Lasers). 

Figure 4-243. Telemetry systems using mud pressure waves (a) negative pulse system (b) positive pulse system (c) continuous wave system.

The continuous wave technique has a definite advantage over the other techniques a very narrow band of frequencies is needed to transmit the information. The pulse techniques, on the contrary, use a large band of frequencies, and the various noises, pump noises in particular, are more difficult to eliminate. 

In the continuous wave (CW) experimental setup a sample is constantly illuminated by a probe beam and the steady state change in the transmission is detected (see Fig. 7-1). An argon ion laser has been used to generate the pump beam and the probe beam was from an incandescent lamp (tungsten or others), producing a broad spectrum (0.5 to 5 pm) [6]. Both pump and probe beams are directed onto the sample film and the transmitted probe light is collected, filtered through a monochromator, and detected by a photodetector. Both the pump and the probe... 

C60 has been used to produce solvent-cast and LB films with interesting photoelec-trochemical behavior. A study of solvent-cast films of C60 on Pt rotating disc electrodes (RDEs) under various illumination conditions was reported [284]. Iodide was used as the solution-phase rednctant. The open-circuit potential shifted by 74 mV per decade of illumination intensity from a continuous wave (cw) argon-ion laser. The photocurrent versus power was measured at -0.26 V under chopped illumination (14-Hz frequency, vs. SCE) up to 30 mW cm and was close to linear. The photoexcitation spectrum (photocurrent versus wavelength) was measured at 0.02 V (vs. SCE) from 400 to 800 mn and found to be... 

CO concentration at the outlet of each zone was continuously measured using a CO analyzer (Shimadzu CGT-7000). To evaluate the performance of the reactors, the conversion of CO for the PBR (Xco) with 4g of catalyst and the time-average conversion of CO for the SCMBR (Tea) with 2g of catalyst in each zone were calculated and compared. It should be noted that the CO concentration wave used for Eq. (1) was obtained whrai the system is at cyclic steady state (after 30 min of operation). 

Numerical examples are shown in Figs. 7-9. The model system used is a 2D model of H2O in a continuous wave (CW) laser field of wavelength 515nm and intensity lO W/cm. The ground electronic state X and the first excited state A are considered. The bending and rotational motions are neglected for... 

Johnson SG, Fearey BL (1993) Spectroscopic study of thorium using continuous-wave resonance ionization mass-spectrometry with rrltraviolet ionization. Spectrochim Acta Part B 48 1065-1077 Knoll GF (1989) Radiation Detection and Measurement. J. Wiley and Sons, New York Kuss HM (1992) Applications of microwave digestion technique for elemental analyses. Fresenins J Anal Chem 343 788-793... 

So far, we have shown where the signal comes from, but how do we measure it There are two main technologies continuous wave (CW) and pulsed Fourier transform (FT). CW is the technology used in older systems and is becoming hard to find these days. (We only include it for the sake of historical context and because it is perhaps the easier technology to explain). FT systems offer many advantages over CW and they are used for all high field instruments. 

Continuous Wave (CW) Technology used initially in the acquisition of NMR data. The radiofrequency or the magnetic field was swept and nuclei of different chemical shift were brought to resonance sequentially. 

Such measurement provides the magnitude of birefringence, but not its sign. In addition, identical transmission values will be observed for multiple birefringence orders, that is, whenever the optical path difference, dAn, becomes a multiple of X. The main interest of this method arises from its excellent time resolution, below 1 ms, that is readily achieved using a low-power (e.g., 5 mW) continuous-wave laser and a photodiode. If the sample is initially isotropic, it is possible to follow the birefringence order to obtain quantitative results. For improved accuracy, a second (reference) photodiode or a beam chopper and a lock-in amplifier can be used. 

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