Ultraviolet laser

A. Baronvaski, Laser Ultraviolet Photochemistry, in "Lasers as Reactants and Probes in Chemistry," (W. M. Jackson and A. Harvey, Eds), Howard University Press, Washington, D.C., 1985. 

In an FT-ICR instrument, fragmentation may be achieved by colliding ions with neutrals (CID) but various other strategies are available, such as collision with surfaces (surface-induced dissociation) or bombardment with ultraviolet or infrared radiation from a laser (ultraviolet photodissociation and multiphoton infrared photodissociation). Dissociation may also be achieved by the absorption of black-body radiation produced by a heated vacuum chamber walls (blackbody infrared dissociation). An advantage of these radiation-induced fragmentation methods is that gas pulses are no longer required. Sustained off-resonance irradiation is the preferred, radiation-based method for FT-ICR MS because it is the simplest to implement and tune. Very low energy and multiple excitation collisional activation techniques are also available. 

Light and/or radiation hazards like optical radiation and poor vision. Sources include welding, cutting, torch brazing, torch soldering, lasers, ultraviolet infrared rays, and glare. 

Nonionizing radiation sources (lasers, ultraviolet, infrared, etc.) Nuclear systems... 

Bolle M, Lazare S, Blanc M L and Wilmes A, Submicron periodic structures produced on polymer surfaces with polarized excimer laser ultraviolet radiation , Appl. Phys. Lett., 1992, 60, 674-6. 

Environmental hazards. According to process applications, environmental conditions may present hazards including dust vapours and fumes X-ray, laser, ultraviolet, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and flammable and explosive atmospheres. 

Patsayeva, S.V., Fadeev, V.V., Filippova, E.M., Chubarov, V.V., and Yuzhakov, V.I. (1991). Temperature and laser ultraviolet radiation influence on luminescence spectra of dissolved organic matter. Vest. Moskov. Universit. Ser. 3 Fizik. Astronom., 32(6), 71-75. 

Three-photon absorption has also been observed by multiphoton ionization, giving Rydberg states of atoms or molecules [36]. Such states usually require vacuum ultraviolet teclmiques for one-photon spectra, but can be done with a visible or near-ultraviolet laser by tluee-photon absorption. 

Optical metiiods, in both bulb and beam expermrents, have been employed to detemiine tlie relative populations of individual internal quantum states of products of chemical reactions. Most connnonly, such methods employ a transition to an excited electronic, rather than vibrational, level of tlie molecule. Molecular electronic transitions occur in the visible and ultraviolet, and detection of emission in these spectral regions can be accomplished much more sensitively than in the infrared, where vibrational transitions occur. In addition to their use in the study of collisional reaction dynamics, laser spectroscopic methods have been widely applied for the measurement of temperature and species concentrations in many different kinds of reaction media, including combustion media [31] and atmospheric chemistry [32]. 

There are several requirements for this to be a suitable deteetion method for a given moleeule. Obviously, tire moleeule must have a transition to a bound, exeited eleetronie state whose wavelength ean be reaehed with tunable laser radiation, and the band system must have been previously speetroseopioally assigned. If the moleeules are fonned with eonsiderable vibrational exeitation, the available speetroseopie data may not extend up to these vibrational levels. Transitions in the visible ean be aeeessed direetly by the output of a tunable dye laser, while transitions in the ultraviolet ean be reaehed by Ifequeney-doubled radiation. The... 

This teclnhque can be used both to pennit the spectroscopic detection of molecules, such as H2 and HCl, whose first electronic transition lies in the vacuum ultraviolet spectral region, for which laser excitation is possible but inconvenient [ ], or molecules such as CH that do not fluoresce. With 2-photon excitation, the required wavelengdis are in the ultraviolet, conveniently generated by frequency-doubled dye lasers, rather than 1-photon excitation in the vacuum ultraviolet. Figure B2.3.17 displays 2 + 1 REMPI spectra of the HCl and DCl products, both in their v = 0 vibrational levels, from the Cl + (CHg) CD reaction [ ]. For some electronic states of HCl/DCl, both parent and fragment ions are produced, and the spectrum in figure B2.3.17 for the DCl product was recorded by monitoring mass 2 (D ions. In this case, both isotopomers (D Cl and D Cl) are detected. 

Hepburn J W 1995 Generation of coherent vacuum ultraviolet radiation applications to high-resolution photoionization and photoelectron spectroscopy Laser Techniques in Chemistry vol 23, ed A B Myers and T R Rizzo (New York Wley) pp 149-83... 

Tunable visible and ultraviolet lasers were available well before tunable infrared and far-infrared lasers. There are many complexes that contain monomers with visible and near-UV spectra. The earliest experiments to give detailed dynamical infonnation on complexes were in fact those of Smalley et al [22], who observed laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) spectra of He-l2 complexes. They excited the complex in the I2 B <—A band, and were able to produce excited-state complexes containing 5-state I2 in a wide range of vibrational states. From line w idths and dispersed fluorescence spectra, they were able to study the rates and pathways of dissociation. Such work was subsequently extended to many other systems, including the rare gas-Cl2 systems, and has given quite detailed infonnation on potential energy surfaces [231. 

Herman P R, LaRooque P E and Stoioheff B P 1988 Vaouum ultraviolet laser speotrosoopy 5 rovibrational speotra of Ar2 and oonstants of the ground and exoited states J. Chem. Phys. 89 4535-49... 

The so-called peak power delivered by a pulsed laser is often far greater than that for a continuous one. Whereas many substances absorb radiation in the ultraviolet and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, relatively few substances are colored. Therefore, a laser that emits only visible light will not be as generally useful as one that emits in the ultraviolet or infrared ends of the spectrum. Further, witli a visible-band laser, colored substances absorb more or less energy depending on the color. Thus two identical polymer samples, one dyed red and one blue, would desorb and ionize with very different efficiencies. 

By varying the types of gases inside the cavity, the wavelength of the laser emission can be varied (Table 18.3). These gas lasers are useful because the emitted light lies mostly in the ultraviolet... 

Lasers are sources of highly collimated, coherent, and intense beams of light that may be obtained commercially from the ultraviolet into the far infrared. 

Emission spectroscopy is confined largely to the visible and ultraviolet regions, where spectra may be produced in an arc or discharge or by laser excitation. Absorption spectroscopy is, generally speaking, a more frequently used technique in all regions of the spectrum and it is for this reason that we shall concentrate rather more on absorption. 

Until the advent of lasers the most intense monochromatic sources available were atomic emission sources from which an intense, discrete line in the visible or near-ultraviolet region was isolated by optical filtering if necessary. The most often used source of this kind was the mercury discharge lamp operating at the vapour pressure of mercury. Three of the most intense lines are at 253.7 nm (near-ultraviolet), 404.7 nm and 435.7 nm (both in the visible region). Although the line width is typically small the narrowest has a width of about 0.2 cm, which places a limit on the resolution which can be achieved. 

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. 

Laser action has been obtained in a few transitions in both these systems but the C B laser action has proved to be more important because it resulted in the first ultraviolet laser. It is only this system that we shall consider here. 

Two-photon absorption has been observed in the microwave region with an intense klystron source but in the infrared, visible and ultraviolet regions laser sources are necessary. 

Dye lasers, frequency doubled if necessary, provide ideal sources for such experiments. The radiation is very intense, the line width is small ( 1 cm ) and the wavenumber may be tuned to match any absorption band in the visible or near-ultraviolet region. 

Instead of using a laser operating in the vacuum-ultraviolet region a laser operating at half the energy may be used. Then the ionization process in Figure 9.50(b) involves the... 

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