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The laser normally operates in the pulsed mode because of the necessity of the dissipation of a large amount of heat between pulses. 

Table 1 gives wavelengths and output powers for some important laser types operated in a continuous-wave (cw) or pulsed mode. The pulsed lasers normally have much higher peak powers but there are technical or theoretical limitations of the maximum repetition frequency, which means that their time-averaged intensity is often below that of the cw lasers. 

The beam from a helium-neon gaseous laser normally consists of a number of modes spaced on the order of 155 mcps apart. Excitation of a fluorescent material by such a beam produces fluorescence which is modulated at this difference frequency, that is, at 155 mcps. 

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The carbon monoxide laser normally operates at roughly twice the frequency of the CO2-laser. However, it can oscillate on several hundred lines between 4.8 and 8.4 jim [1,23]. This is due to the fact that many different vibrational levels in the deep, enharmonic potential curve of CO can be the starting point for laser emission. Under CW-condition, v=3= 2 up to v=37= 36-bands can be obtained and the frequency shift between adjacent bands is due to the anharmonicity of the CO-potential. The inversion mechanism is not as straightforward as in the CO2-laser. Usually no complete inversion for adjacent vibrational levels can be obtained and therefore only P-branch transitions do occur. Nevertheless, the wavelength region is completely covered with the rotational distribution of the vibrational bands (Fig.1.13). 

This simple description does not take into account the so-called photonic stop-band effect, which forbids propagation at wavelength exactly satisfying the Bragg condition. According to the coupled mode theory [66, 67], distributed feedback (DFB) lasers normally oscillate on the edge of this photonic stopband (Figure 15.14). 

Fig. 14 Laser-normalized electron photodetachment yield measured as a function of the laser wavelength for [Prot — 6H] , where Prot is cytochrome-c. Reproduced with permission from [136]...

The lone pair is produced intrinsically by the sp-orbit hybridization of O and N. The number of lone pairs in a tetrahedron follows the rule of 4-n , where n is the valence value of the electronegative additive. Vibration of the dipole induced by the lone pairs should be detectable by Raman spectroscopy in the frequency range below 1,000 cm . A Raman experimental survey (HeNe laser, normal incidence) from the following specimens confirmed this expectation [12]. Figure 6.2 shows Raman spectra of (1) AI2O3 and Ti02 powders (2) thin films of Ti nitride (TiN) and amorphous carbon nitride and, (3) films of amorphous carbon (a-C) and Ti carbide (TiC). As anticipated, the lone-pair features of the oxides (n = 2) are stronger than those of the nitrides (n = 3) while no such features can be resolved from carbides (n = 4). The appearance and the relative intensity of these low-frequency Raman features support the prediction and the rules of 4-n for lone-pair formation as well. 

Quack M 1981 Faraday Discuss. Chem. Soc. 71 309-11, 325-6, 359-64 (Discussion contributions on flexible transition states and vibrationally adiabatic models statistical models in laser chemistry and spectroscopy normal, local, and global vibrational states)... 

By using a laser with less power and the beam spread over a larger area, it is possible to sample a surface. In this approach, after each laser shot, the laser is directed onto a new area of surface, a technique known as surface profiling (Figure 2.4c). At the low power used, only the top few nanometers of surface are removed, and the method is suited to investigate surface contamination. The normal surface yields characteristic ions but, where there are impurities on the surface, additional ions appear. 

It was shown above that the normal two-level system (ground to excited state) will not produce lasing but that a three-level system (ground to excited state to second excited state) can enable lasing. Some laser systems utilize four- or even five-level systems, but all need at least one of the excited-state energy levels to have a relatively long lifetime to build up an inverted population. 

For solids, there is now a very wide range of inlet and ionization opportunities, so most types of solids can be examined, either neat or in solution. However, the inlet/ionization methods are often not simply interchangeable, even if they use the same mass analyzer. Thus a direct-insertion probe will normally be used with El or Cl (and desorption chemical ionization, DCl) methods of ionization. An LC is used with ES or APCI for solutions, and nebulizers can be used with plasma torches for other solutions. MALDI or laser ablation are used for direct analysis of solids. 

The ablated vapors constitute an aerosol that can be examined using a secondary ionization source. Thus, passing the aerosol into a plasma torch provides an excellent means of ionization, and by such methods isotope patterns or ratios are readily measurable from otherwise intractable materials such as bone or ceramics. If the sample examined is dissolved as a solid solution in a matrix, the rapid expansion of the matrix, often an organic acid, covolatilizes the entrained sample. Proton transfer from the matrix occurs to give protonated molecular ions of the sample. Normally thermally unstable, polar biomolecules such as proteins give good yields of protonated ions. This is the basis of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI). 

The cavity of a laser may resonate in various ways during the process of generation of radiation. The cavity, which we can regard as a rectangular box with a square cross-section, has modes of oscillation, referred to as cavity modes, which are of two types, transverse and axial (or longitudinal). These are, respectively, normal to and along the direction of propagation of the laser radiation. 

Although 0-switching produces shortened pulses, typically 10-200 ns long, if we require pulses in the picosecond (10 s) or femtosecond (10 s) range the technique of mode locking may be used. This technique is applicable only to multimode operation of a laser and involves exciting many axial cavity modes but with the correct amplitude and phase relationship. The amplitudes and phases of the various modes are normally quite random. 

The CO2 laser is a near-infrared gas laser capable of very high power and with an efficiency of about 20 per cent. CO2 has three normal modes of vibration Vj, the symmetric stretch, V2, the bending vibration, and V3, the antisymmetric stretch, with symmetry species (t+, ti , and (7+, and fundamental vibration wavenumbers of 1354, 673, and 2396 cm, respectively. Figure 9.16 shows some of the vibrational levels, the numbering of which is explained in footnote 4 of Chapter 4 (page 93), which are involved in the laser action. This occurs principally in the 3q22 transition, at about 10.6 pm, but may also be induced in the 3oli transition, at about 9.6 pm. 

Unless the cavity is tuned to a particular wavelength the vibration-rotation transition with the highest gain is the P-branch transition involving the rotational level which has the highest population in the 3 state. This is P(22), with J" = 22 and J = 21, at normal laser temperatures. The reason why this P-branch line is so dominant is that thermal redistribution of rotational level populations is faster than the population depletion due to emission. 

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