Absorption lasers

Figure Bl.2.9. Schematic representation of the metliod used in cavity ringdown laser absorption spectroscopy. From [33], used with pemhssion.

Nesbitt D J 1994 Fligh-resolution, direct infrared-laser absorption-spectroscopy in slit supersonic ]ets—intermolecular forces and unimolecular vibrational dynamics in clusters Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem. 45 367-99... 

Scherer J J, Paul J B, O Keefe A and Saykally R J 1997 Cavity ringdown laser absorption spectroscopy history, development, and application to pulsed molecular beams Chem. Rev. 97 25-51... 

Scherer J J ef a/1995 Infrared cavity ringdown laser-absorption spectroscopy (IR-CRLAS) Chem. Phys. Lett. 245 273-80... 

Paul J B, Collier C P, Saykally R J, Scherer J J and O Keefe A 1997 Direct measurement of water cluster concentrations by infrared cavity ringdown laser absorption spectroscopy J. Phys. Chem. A 101 5211-14... 

The pyrolysis of CR NH (<1 mbar) was perfomied at 1.3 atm in Ar, spectroscopically monitoring the concentration of NH2 radicals behind the reflected shock wave as a fiinction of time. The interesting aspect of this experiment was the combination of a shock-tube experiment with the particularly sensitive detection of the NH2 radicals by frequency-modulated, laser-absorption spectroscopy [ ]. Compared with conventional narrow-bandwidth laser-absorption detection the signal-to-noise ratio could be increased by a factor of 20, with correspondingly more accurate values for the rate constant k T). 

A promising technique is cavity ringdown laser absorption spectroscopy (307), in which the rate of decay of laser pulses injected into an optical cavity containing the sample is measured. Absorption sensitivities of 5 x 10 have been measured on a ]ls time scale. AppHcations from the uv to the ir... 

Scherer, J.J. et al.. Cavity ringdown laser absorption spectroscopy History, development and applications to pulsed molecular beams, Chem. Rev., 97, 25, 1997. 

Vj = 1 <— v" = 1 transition will be at a different energy than the Vj = 0 <— v" = 0. We use this fact to measure the vibrational spectrum of V (OCO) in a depletion experiment (Fig. 12a). A visible laser is set to the Vj = 0 Vj = 0 transition at 15,801 cm producing fragment ions. A tunable IR laser fires before the visible laser. Absorption of IR photons removes population from the ground state, which is observed as a decrease in the fragment ion signal. This technique is a variation of ion-dip spectroscopy, in which ions produced by 1 + 1 REMPI are monitored as an IR laser is tuned. Ion-dip spectroscopy has been used by several groups to study vibrations of neutral clusters and biomolecules [157-162]. 

Photochemistry of Cr(CO) at 248 nm. We have previously shown8 that the 248 nm photolysis of Cr(CO)6 yields Cr(CO)4 as the principal organometallic product via (7)-(8). Time-resolved laser absorption methods can be used to record the... 

Conclusions. Time-resolved CO laser absorption spectroscopy can provide information useful in characterizing the primary photochemical channels in gas-phase transition metal carbonyls. We have found that product vibrational energy distributions indicate that W(CO)g and Cr(CO>6 dissociate via different... 

A number of other laser spectroscopic techniques are of interest but space does not permit their discussion. A few specialized methods of detecting laser absorption worthy of mention include multiphoton ionization/mass spectrometry (28), which is extremely sensitive as well as mass selective for gas-phase systems optically detected magnetic resonance (29) laser intracavity absorption, which can be extremely sensitive and is applicable to gases or solutions (30) thermal blooming, which is also applicable to very weak absorbances in gases or liquids (31) and... 

Quirry MR, Holland WE, Waring RC, Hale GM (1975) High sensitivity laser absorption spectroscopy of laboratory aqueous solutions and of natural Missouri waters. PB report no. 243123, US National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA, USA... 

Methods of Cavity-Enhanced Laser Absorption Spectroscopy Using Microresonator Whispering-Gallery Modes... 

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