Flash-lamp

For the examination of the applied metallic or ceramic layer, the test object is heated up from the outside The heat applying takes place impulse-like (4ms) by xenon-flash lamps, which are mounted on a rack The surface temperature arises to approx 150 °C Due to the high temperature gradient the warmth diffuses quickly into the material An incorrect layer, e g. due to a delamiation (layer removal) obstructs the heat transfer, so that a higher temperature can be detected with an infrared camera. A complete test of a blade lasts approximatly 5 minutes. This is also done automatically by the system. In illustration 9, a typical delamination is to be recognized. 

B2.5.4 FLASH PHOTOLYSIS WITH FLASH LAMPS AND LASERS... 

One of the most important teclmiques for the study of gas-phase reactions is flash photolysis [8, ]. A reaction is initiated by absorption of an intense light pulse, originally generated from flash lamps (duration a=lp.s). Nowadays these have frequently been replaced by pulsed laser sources, with the shortest pulses of the order of a few femtoseconds [22, 64]. 

A recent example of laser flash-lamp photolysis is given by Hippier etal [ ], who investigated the temperature and pressure dependence of the thennal recombmation rate constant for the reaction... 

The conmron flash-lamp photolysis and often also laser-flash photolysis are based on photochemical processes that are initiated by the absorption of a photon, hv. The intensity of laser pulses can reach GW cm or even TW cm, where multiphoton processes become important. Figure B2.5.13 simnnarizes the different mechanisms of multiphoton excitation [75, 76, 112], The direct multiphoton absorption of mechanism (i) requires an odd number of photons to reach an excited atomic or molecular level in the case of strict electric dipole and parity selection rules [117],... 

The flash lamp teclmology first used to photolyse samples has since been superseded by successive generations of increasingly faster pulsed laser teclmologies, leading to a time resolution for optical perturbation metliods tliat now extends to femtoseconds. This time scale approaches tlie ultimate limit on time resolution (At) available to flash photolysis studies, tlie limit imposed by chemical bond energies (AA) tlirough tlie uncertainty principle, AAAt > 2/j. 

Krypton clathrates have been prepared with hydroquinone and phenol. 85Kr has found recent application in chemical analysis. By imbedding the isotope in various solids, kryptonates are formed. The activity of these kryptonates is sensitive to chemical reactions at the surface. Estimates of the concentration of reactants are therefore made possible. Krypton is used in certain photographic flash lamps for high-speed photography. Uses thus far have been limited because of its high cost. Krypton gas presently costs about 30/1. 

If the flash lamp is pulsed very rapidly, the emergent beam appears at a rate governed by the lifetime of the inverted population. The resulting laser beam becomes almost continuous because the pulses follow each other so rapidly. However, such a solid-state laser should not be pulsed too rapidly because, if it is, the rod heats to an unacceptable extent, causing distortion and even fracture. Generally, solid-state lasers are not used in continuous mode because of this heating aspect. Liquid or gas lasers do not suffer from this problem. 

There has been a tremendous change in the last two decades as computers have taken over the tedious calculations involved in color measurement. Indeed, microprocessors either are built into or are connected to all modem instmments, so that the operator may merely need to specify, for example, x,j, Y or T, i , b or T, (A, b, either for the 2° or the 10° observer, and for a specific standard illiiminant, to obtain the desired color coordinates or color differences, all of which can be stored for later reference or computation. The use of high intensity filtered Xenon flash lamps and array detectors combined with computers has resulted in almost instantaneous measurement in many instances. 

The term solid-state laser refers to lasers that use solids as their active medium. However, two kinds of materials are required a host crystal and an impurity dopant. The dopant is selected for its ability to form a population inversion. The Nd YAG laser, for example, uses a small number of neodymium ions as a dopant in the solid YAG (yttrium-aluminum-gar-net) crystal. Solid-state lasers are pumped with an outside source such as a flash lamp, arc lamp, or another laser. This energy is then absorbed by the dopant, raising the atoms to an excited state. Solid-state lasers are sought after because the active medium is relatively easy to handle and store. Also, because the wavelength they produce is within the transmission range of glass, they can be used with fiber optics. 

The common liquid lasers utilize a flowing dye as the active medium and are pumped by a flash lamp or another laser. These are typically more complex systems requiring more maintenance. They can he operated as either CW (continuous wave) or pulsed. One advantage liquid lasers have is they can be tuned for different wavelengths over a 100-nm range. 

Schawlow continued working on his laser at Bell Labs. He had rejected ruby as an active medium because he felt it would not reach population inversion. By pumping the ruby with the light from a photographer s flash lamp, however, Maiman succeeded, created the world s first laser in June 1960. 

The expln limits of mixts of gaseous Cl azide with Ar, N, and C dioxide are in Ref 3. The shock wave formed by the expansion of the gas into a vacuum is sufficient to cause de-compn (Ref 5) Qe -93.2 l.Skcal/mole, flame temp at 20mm 3380°K (Ref 6). Mixts of Cl azide.N trifluoride H 1 1 2 at 12—24 torr are initiated with a Xe flash lamp to produce explns which excite a H fluoride laser. Q azide, S hexafluoride, H mixts were similarly used (Ref 7)... 

Coveralls, hard hat, gloves, goggles, safety shoes, a good flash lamp, and low-voltage emergency lighting are basic requirements. 

There are countless other reactions, many like these and others rather different, but the idea in every case is the same. A sudden flash of light causes an immediate photo-excitation chemical events ensue thereafter. This technique of flash photolysis was invented and applied to certain gas-phase reactions by G. Porter and R. G. W. Nor-rish, who shared with Eigen the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. High-intensity flash lamps fired by a capacitor discharge were once the method of choice for fast photochemical excitation. Lasers, which are in general much faster, have nowadays largely supplanted flash lamps. Moreover, the laser light is monochromatic so that only the desired absorption band of the parent compound will be irradiated. 

In principle, pulsed excitation measurements can provide direct observation of time-resolved polarization decays and permit the single-exponential or multiexponential nature of the decay curves to be measured. In practice, however, accurate quantification of a multiexponential curve often requires that the emission decay be measured down to low intensity values, where obtaining a satisfactory signal -to-noise ratio can be a time-consuming process. In addition, the accuracy of rotational rate measurements close to a nanosecond or less are severely limited by tbe pulse width of the flash lamps. As a result, pulsed-excitation polarization measurements are not commonly used for short rotational periods or for careful measurements of rotational anisotropy. 

Once the fluorescence quantum yield has been determined, all that is required to calculate the fluorescence rate constant kf is the fluorescence lifetime rf. Direct measurement of this quantity, like the measurement of the fluorescence quantum yield, is difficult, in this case because of the short lifetime of the fluorescent state (shorter than the normal flash from a flash lamp ). There are, however, several methods which have been developed to determine fluorescence lifetimes and these will be the subject of this section. 

Transient absorption techniques now have a venerable history. The development of flash kinetic spectroscopy was the work of Norrish and Porter (62). This technique typically employed a flash lamp to produce... 

Both Porter s original flash photolysis apparatus and Pimentel s rapid scan spectrometer recorded the whole spectral region in a time which was short compared to the decay of the transient species. Kinetic information was obtained by repeatedly firing the photolytic flash lamp and making each spectroscopic measurement at a different time delay after each flash. The decay rate could then be extracted from this series of delayed spectra. Such a process clearly has limitations, particularly for IR measurements, where the decay must be slow compared to the scan rate of the spectrum. 

Mulheim globar + monochromator flash lamp InSb/MCT I.Spsec... 

Fig. 6. Schematic diagram of the Nottingham apparatus for IR kinetic measurements on solutions. Solid lines represent the light path, broken lines the electrical connections. L = Line tunable CO laser, S = sample cell, F = flash lamp, P = photodiode, D = fast MCT IR detector, T = transient digitizer, O = oscilloscope, and M = microcomputer. Nonfocussing optics were used throughout, and the IR laser beam was heavily attenuated by a variable path cell V, filled with liquid methanol, placed immediately in front of the detector. [Reproduced with permission from Moore et al. (61).]...

---