Laser Spectroscopy of Highly Vibrationally Excited Molecules

ISBN-13: 9780852742174 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 396 str.

Vladilen Stepanovich Letokhov

Opis

Laser spectroscopy has been perfected over the last fifteen years to become a precise tool for the investigation of highly vibrationally excited molecules. Intense infrared laser radiation permits both the multiple-photon resonant excitation and the dissociation of polyatomic molecules. In this book, the latest results of some of the foremost Soviet researchers are published for the first time in the West.
Laser Spectroscopy of Highly Vibrationally Excited Molecules contains a comprehensive study of both the experimental and theoretical aspects of the basic photophysical interactions that occur in these processes. The book first focuses on the nonlinear interaction between the resonant vibrational mode and the intense infrared field and then examines the nonlinear interaction between the vibrational modes themselves due to anharmonicity. These interrelated processes determine all the characteristics of polyatomic molecules in an infrared field. The book also discusses related phenomena such as spectra broadening, optical resonance, photon echoes, and dynamical chaos. It includes examples of multiple-photon resonant excitation such as the excitation of OsO4 by CO DEGREESO2 laser radiation, which is detected by the visible luminescence that results.
This book will be of great interest to researchers and postgraduate students in infrared laser spectroscopy and the laser chemistry of molecules and applications of isotope separation.

Spis treści

Introduction to the Physics of Multiple-Photon Excitation of Vibrations of Polyatomic Molecules by V.S. Letokhov

Raman Spectroscopy of the Inter- and Intramolecular Vibrational Distribution in IR Multiple-Photon Excited Molecules by E.A. Ryabov

Spectra of Transitions in the Quasicontinuum of Polyatomic Molecules by A.A. Makarov

Dynamical Chaos and Intramolecular Vibrational Relaxation in Polyatomic Molecules by M.V. Kuzmin and A.A. Stuchebrukhov

Laser IR Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Molecules Near and Above the Dissociation Limit by V.N. Bagratashvili, S.I. Ionov, and G.N. Makarov

Inverse Electronic Relaxation under IR Multiple-Photon Excitation of Molecules by A.A. Puretzky and V.V. Tyakht

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O autorze

Letokhov, Vladilen Stepanovich