Multiple-Photon Excitation and Dissociation of Polyatomic Molecules:
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Other Authors: Cantrell, Cyrus D. 1940- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1986
Series:Topics in Current Physics 35
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:In the early 1970s, researchers in Canada, the Soviet Union and the United States discovered that powerful infrared laser pulses are capable of dissociating molecules such as SiF4 and SF6. This result, which was so unexpected that for some time the phenomenon of multiple-photon dissociation was not recognized in many circumstances in which we now know that it occurs, was first publicized at a time when the possibility of using lasers for the separation of isotopes had attracted much attention in the scientific community. From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, hundreds of experimental papers were published describing the multiple-photon absorption of CO2 laser pulses in nearly every simple molecule with an absorption band in the 9 - 11 jJm region. Despite this impressive volume of experimental results, and despite the efforts of numerous theorists, there is no agreement among researchers in the field on many fundamental aspects of the absorption of infrared laser light by polyatomic molecules. This book is devoted to reviells of the experimental and theoretical research that provides the foundations for our current understanding of molecular multiple­photon excitation, and to reviews of research that is pertinent to the laser separation of isotopes
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 290 p)
ISBN:9783642822926
9783642822940
ISSN:0342-6793
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-82292-6

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