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Laser photolysis of a precursor may also be used to generate a reagent. In a crossed-beam study of the D + FI2 reaction [24], a hypertliennal beam of deuterium atoms (0.5 to 1 eV translational energy) was prepared by 248 mn photolysis of DI. This preparation method has been widely used for the preparation of molecular free radicals, both in beams and in experiments in a cell, with laser detection of the products. Laser photolysis as a method to prepare reagents in experiments in which the products are optically detected is fiirtlier discussed below. 

New to the fourth edition are the topics of laser detection and ranging (LIDAR), cavity ring-down spectroscopy, femtosecond lasers and femtosecond spectroscopy, and the use of laser-induced fluorescence excitation for stmctural investigations of much larger molecules than had been possible previously. This latter technique takes advantage of two experimental quantum leaps the development of very high resolution lasers in the visible and ultraviolet regions and of the supersonic molecular beam. 

Figure 2 shows the brief principle of a laser-detected FFM. A sample is put on a piezoelectrical tube (PZT), which scans X, Y plane and controls the feedback of Z axis. The laser beam from a diode is focused on the mirror of the free end of a cantilever with lens, and the reflected beam falls on the center of a position-sensitive detector (PSD), a four-quadrant photodiode. When the sample contacts with the tip and relatively moves under the control of a computer, the reflected beam deflects and changes the position on the PSD due to the twist and deflection of the cantilever caused by the changes of surface roughness, friction force, and adhesive force between the sample and the tip. The extension and re-... 

Fig. 2—Brief principle of a laser-detected FFM. 1, laser beam 2, cantilever 3, tip 4, Sample 5, piezoelectrical tube 6, position-sensitive detector.

Figure 5. a) Fluorescence microphotographs of ZSM-5 crystals taken during template removal and b) confocal fluorescence images taken at 700 K (561-nm laser, detection at 575-635 nm, intensity presented as a gray scale). 

Laser state-to-state techniques include both the application of highly sensitive laser spectroscopy for internal state-resolved detection of molecules in the gas phase, e.g., desorbing or scattering from a surface, and second, for laser pumping an initial state prior to interaction with a surface. To date, laser detection of internal states has been widely applied in gas-surface dynamics experiments, while those involving optical state preparation techniques have only been applied in a limited fashion. 

Laser beam expansion was also employed in LPA laser detection of HO (36-39). Hubler et al. (38) calculated an asymptotic laser-generated HO concentration in their quasi-continuous-wave expanded laser beam by assuming a chemical decay lifetime of 1 s for the excess HO. Chemical recycling of this HO was assumed to be slow with respect to the residence time of air in the laser beam. 

Most of the recent reviews on photodissociation dynamics have had an extensive section on the earlier work on water (2-4, 7,20) because it is an important component on the earth s atmosphere. In this section we shall concentrate on the more recent work on water and hydrogen peroxide, since 0H(X2II) is amenable to laser detection. 

Nitrogen-containing explosives [249] and trinitrotoluene [250] have been determined in soil by gas chromatography with thermionic NP detection and reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. Warmont et al. [251] used tunable infrared laser detection to study the pyrolysis products of explosives in soil. 

Most of the time-resolved emission spectroscopy setups are home made in the sense that they are built from individual devices (laser, detection system,. ..) hence they are not of a plug and press type, so that their exact characteristics may vary from one installation to the other. Some of these differences have no impact on the overall capabilities of the system but some have a drastic influence on the way the collected data are processed and analysed. This aspect will be detailed in the next section, while this section deals with a general description of the apparatus. The most basic type of apparatus will be described, with no reference to sophisticated techniques such as Time Correlated Single Photon Counting or Circularly Polarized Luminescence devices. 

Today s predominance of the gas phase sequencer for sequence analysis is partly due to the advancement of PTH-amino acid analysis on HPLC, in which the analysis takes only 10 min to complete using reversed-phase column.70-72 Thus, a gas phase sequencer with an on-line PTH-analyzer can perform a single Edman degradation cycle within one hour. With the use of a microbore column and a data station which handles various data manipulations, a few pmol of PTH-amino acid can be quantitatively analyzed. Although the minimum detection level of amino acid derivatives has improved significantly in the last 10 years (103-104-fold enhancement), further improvement is expected with the use of a fluorescent compound, i.e., fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC), and the laser detection technique. 

To satisfy all the above requirements one needs to utilize lasers for both the generation and the detection of the thermal waves. The generation is, of course, straightforward. The detection is more involved, performed either by interferometric detection of the thermoelastic displacements of the sample surface or by laser detection of the local thermoelastic deformations of the surface. All the other methods for thermal-wave detection suffer from either being limited to low modulation frequencies or from needing contact to the sample. 

In SPC, the main principles of EFM and FC, being fluorescent labelling of cells and laser detection, are combined (Lemarchand et al. 2001). The different steps in a SPC protocol are presented in Fig. 1. 

Imaging semiconductor surfaces in liquids raises several kinds of difficulties which have been recently reviewed [1, 2]. In the case of STM, n-type samples must for instance be cathodically polarized since the contact of a semiconductor with a liquid is a diode and proper tunneling requires the diode be forward-biased so as to reach a sufficient density of electrons at the surface. In the case of AFM, the laser detection... 

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