Radiation narrow band

As in all Fourier transform methods in spectroscopy, the FTIR spectrometer benefits greatly from the multiplex, or Fellgett, advantage of detecting a broad band of radiation (a wide wavenumber range) all the time. By comparison, a spectrometer that disperses the radiation with a prism or diffraction grating detects, at any instant, only that narrow band of radiation that the orientation of the prism or grating allows to fall on the detector, as in the type of infrared spectrometer described in Section 3.6. 

From about 1970, but before the availability of suitable lasers, Parmenter and others obtained SVLF spectra, particularly of benzene, using radiation from an intense high-pressure xenon arc source (see Section 3.4.4) and passing it through a monochromator to select a narrow band ca 20 cm wide) of radiation to excite the sample within a particular absorption band. 

Because of the unique features of the x-ray radiation available at synchrotrons, many novel experiments ate being conducted at these sources. Some of these unique features are the very high intensity and the brightness (number of photons per unit area per second), the neatly parallel incident beam, the abihty to choose a narrow band of wavelengths from a broad spectmm, the pulsed nature of the radiation (the electrons or positrons travel in bunches), and the coherence of the beam (the x-ray photons in a pulse are in phase with one another). The appHcations are much more diverse than the appHcations described in this article. The reader may wish to read the articles in the Proceedings of the Materials Research Society Hsted in the bibhography. 

A family of vacuum-tube MMW sources is based on the propagation of an electron beam through a so-called slow-wave or periodic structure. Radiation propagates on the slow-wave structure at the speed of the electron beam, allowing the beam and radiation field to interact. Devices in this category are the traveling-wave tube (TWT), the backward-wave oscillator (BWO) and the extended interaction oscillator (EIO) klystron. TWTs are characterized by wide bandwidths and intermediate power output. These devices operate well at frequencies up to 100 GHz. BWOs, so called because the radiation within the vacuum tube travels in a direction opposite to that of the electron beam, have very wide bandwidths and low output powers. These sources operate at frequencies up to 1.3 THz and are extensively used in THZ spectroscopic applications [10] [11] [12]. The EIO is a high-power, narrow band tube that has an output power of 1 kW at 95 GHz and about 100 W at 230 GHz. It is available in both oscillator and amplifier, CW and pulsed versions. This source has been extensively used in MMW radar applications with some success [13]. 

Figure 12.3 Regions of the electromagnetic spectrum in terms of both frequency (hertz) and wavelength (m). The visible region is a very narrow band between 400 and 700 nm. The lower labels show which part of the atom the various radiations correspond to, i.e., X-rays result from reorganization of the inner shell electrons, UV from the valence electrons, etc. From PSSC PHYSICS, second edition, copyright 1965 by D. C. Heath and Company. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.

Similar results were obtained by De Shazer using a different detection technique, where laser oscillations in the sample were forced to develop from the narrow-band radiation, injected from a second small aperture laser into the sample laser cavity. The interionic transfer allowed the feeding of this narrow-band radiation by ions having frequencies outside this interval. The effeciency of energy extraction within the narrow bandwidth and the degree of depolarization of the laser oscillations parametrize the cross relaxation effects. 

Photoluminescence is a term widely applied to the range of phenomena where light emission occurs from a material after energising by photons. In this section of the book the term is specifically applied to the cases where luminescence occurs after the interaction of luminescent materials with narrow band, higher energy ultraviolet radiation, namely in lighting and plasma display panel applications. 

Atoms of a metal are volatilised in a flame and their absorption of a narrow band of radiation produced by a hollow cathode lamp, coated with the particular metal being determined, is measured. 

Another evidently radiation-induced band occurs in the orange part of spectrum. Under long waved UV and visible excitations the band peaking at 600 nm is detected with half-width of 95 nm (Fig. 5.66a). Excitation spectrum of this emission contains for maxima peaking at 345,360 and 410 nm (Fig. 5.66b). The band is evidently not symmetrical with shoulder at 625 nm, but such form remains in all time-resolved spectra with different delays and gates and does not resolved to several emission bands. This band can be detected with extremely narrow gate width, which is a strong evidence that its decay time is very short, approximately 10-12 ns, which is on the border of our experimental system alrility. At 40 K the band becomes extremely intensive, while its spectrum and decay time remain practically the same. 

Freckleton, R. S., S. Pinnock, and K. P. Shine, Radiative Forcing of Halocarbons A Comparison of Line-by-Line and Narrow-Band Models Using CF4 as an Example, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 55, 763-769 (1996). 

Monochromatic Light radiated from a source that is concentrated in only a very narrow wavelength range (bandwidth). This may be accomplished either by filters or by narrow-band emission. 

Many diffuse-reflectance instruments are available. Some employ several interference filters to provide narrow bands of radiation. Others are equipped with grating monochromators. Ordinarily, calibration is often a stringent requirement as samples must be acquired of the material for analysis that contain the range of analyte concentrations likely to be encountered. It may be useful to grind solid samples to a reproducible particle size. Equations are developed and used for the analysis. Once method development has been completed and validated, solid samples can be analyzed in a few minutes. Accuracy and precision are reported to be of 1 to 2% relative. 

We describe beamline ID09B at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), a laboratory for optical pump and x-ray probe experiments to 100-picosecond resolution. The x-ray source is a narrow-band undulator, which can produce up to 1 x 1010 photons in one pulse. The 3% bandwidth of the undulator is sufficiently monochromatic for most diffraction experiments in liquids. A Ti sapphire femtosecond laser is used for reaction initiation. The laser mns at 896 Hz and the wavelength is tunable between 290-1160 nm. The doubled (400 nm) and tripled wavelength (267 nm) are also available. The x-ray repetition frequency from the synchrotron is reduced to 896 Hz by a chopper. The time delay can be varied from 0 ps to 1 ms, which makes it possible to follow structural processes occurring in a wide range of time scales in one experiment. 

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