Radiation of emission

Lasers are devices for producing coherent light by way of stimulated emission. (Laser is an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.) In order to impose stimulated emission upon the system, it is necessary to bypass the equilibrium state, characterized by the Boltzmann law (Section 9.6.2), and arrange for more atoms to be in the excited-state E than there are in the ground-state E0. This state of affairs is called a population inversion and it is a necessary precursor to laser action. In addition, it must be possible to overcome the limitation upon the relative rate of spontaneous emission to stimulated emission, given above. Ways in which this can be achieved are described below, using the ruby laser and the neodymium laser as examples. 

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Lifetime measurements have elements in eommon with both eounting and time-of-flight experiments [4, 5]. In a lifetime experiment there is an initiating event that produees the system tliat subsequently deeays witli the emission of radiation, partieles or both. Deeay is statistieal in eharaeter taking as an example luielear deeay. 

The acronym LASER (Light Amplification via tire Stimulated Emission of Radiation) defines the process of amplification. For all intents and purjDoses tliis metliod was elegantly outlined by Einstein in 1917 [H] wherein he derived a treatment of the dynamic equilibrium of a material in a electromagnetic field absorbing and emitting photons. Key here is tire insight tliat, in addition to absorjDtion and spontaneous emission processes, in an excited system one can stimulate tire emission of a photon by interaction witli tire electromagnetic field. It is tliis stimulated emission process which lays tire conceptual foundation of tire laser. 

LASER, light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation... 

ABSORPTION AND EMISSION OF RADIATION For the vibrational energy level ... 

If the radiofrequency spectmm is due to emission of radiation between pairs of states - for example nuclear spin states in NMR spectroscopy - the width of a line is a consequence of the lifetime, t, of the upper, emitting state. The lifetime and the energy spread, AE, of the upper state are related through the uncertainty principle (see Equation 1.16) by... 

The 3 Pi/2, 3 P2/2 excited states involved in the sodium D lines are the lowest energy excited states of the atom. Consequently, in a discharge in the vapour at a pressure that is sufficiently high for collisional deactivation of excited states to occur readily, a majority of atoms find themselves in these states before emission of radiation has taken place. Therefore... 

The word laser is an acronym derived from light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation . If the light concerned is in the microwave region then the alternative acronym maser is often used. Although the first such device to be constructed was the ammonia maser in 1954 it is the lasers made subsequently which operate in the infrared, visible or ultraviolet regions of the spectrum which have made a greater impact. 

In Section 2.2 we saw that emission of radiation by an excited atom or molecule M may be by a spontaneous (Equation 2.4) or by an induced, or stimulated, process... 

One of the first applications of this technique was to the enrichment of and "B isotopes, present as 18.7 and 81.3 per cent, respectively, in natural abundance. Boron trichloride, BCI3, dissociates when irradiated with a pulsed CO2 laser in the 3g vibrational band at 958 cm (vj is an e vibration of the planar, D j, molecule). One of the products of dissociation was detected by reaction with O2 to form BO which then produced chemiluminescence (emission of radiation as a result of energy gained by chemical reaction) in the visible region due to A U — fluorescence. Irradiation in the 3g band of BCls or "BCI3 resulted in °BO or BO chemiluminescence. The fluorescence of °BO is easily resolved from that of "BO. 

The term laser is an acronym constmcted from light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. The first operating laser was produced in 1960 (1). This laser, which used a crystal of mby [12174A9-17, chromium-doped alumina, Al202 Cr, and emitted a pulsed beam of collimated red light, immediately aroused scientific interest. 

Nonradiative energy transfer is induced by an interaction between the state of the system, in which the sensitizer is in the excited state and the activator in the ground state, and the state in which the activator is in the excited and the sensitizer in the ground state. In the presence of radiative decay, nonradiative decay, and energy transfer the emission of radiation from a single sensitizer ion decays exponentially with time, /. 

The neutron activation technique mentioned in the preceding paragraph is only one of a range of nuclear methods used in the study of solids - methods which depend on the response of atomic nuclei to radiation or to the emission of radiation by the nuclei. Radioactive isotopes ( tracers ) of course have been used in research ever since von Hevesy s pioneering measurements of diffusion (Section 4.2.2). These techniques have become a field of study in their own right and a number of physics laboratories, as for instance the Second Physical Institute at the University of Gottingen, focus on the development of such techniques. This family of techniques, as applied to the study of condensed matter, is well surveyed in a specialised text... 

Fluorescence and phosphorescence are both forms of luminescence [3]. If the emission of radiation has decayed within 10 s after the exciting radiation is cut off it is known as fluorescence [4], if the decay phase lasts longer (because the electrons return to the ground state from a forbidden triplet state (Fig. 5), then the phenomenon is known as phosphorescence. A distinction is also made between... 

The word laser is an acronym for light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation. Lasers of all kinds consist of several basic components an active medium, an outside energy source, and an optical cavity with carefully designed mirrors on both ends. One of the mirrors is 100 percent reflective... 

By 1954 Townes, with the help of graduate students Herbert Zeiger and James Gordon, developed the maser, an acronym for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. The maser had... 

Figure 17.13 is a plot of mass number against atomic number for known nuclides. Stable nuclei are found in a band of stability surrounded by a sea of instability, the region of unstable nuclides that decay with the emission of radiation. For atomic numbers up to about 20, the stable nuclides have approximately equal numbers of neutrons and protons, and so A is close to 2Z. For higher atomic numbers, all known nuclides—both stable and unstable—have more neutrons than protons, and so A > 2Z. 

Radical chemistry has undergone something of a renaissance in recent years. The phenomenon of CIDNP has played an important part in this. The growing interest in the role of radical processes in biological systems may stimulate the application of CIDNP in even wider fields in the future. The development of a practical device for radiofrequency amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation (RASER) may well be one such application. 

Acronym for Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. ... 

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