Lasing characteristics of gas mixtures involving UFG: Application to nuclear pumping of lasers
Abstract
Intense blue-green fluorescence from a structured band centered at lambda approximately 484 nm was observed from Ar, CF3I and NF3 gas mixtures excited by an electron beam. This emission was tentatively assigned to the E yields A transition of the iodine monofluoride (IF) molecule. The fluorescence efficiency of the IF(E yields A) band and the IF (E) state radiative lifetime were estimated to be approximately 6% and 15 ns, respectively. The emission band structure, the short IF(E) radiative lifetime and the Franck-Condon shift between the E and A states suggest that IF is an attractive candidate for a blue-green laser.
- Publication:
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Final Report Illinois Univ
- Pub Date:
- March 1980
- Bibcode:
- 1980uill.rept.....V
- Keywords:
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- Gas Mixtures;
- Iodine Lasers;
- Lasing;
- Nuclear Pumped Lasers;
- Efficiency;
- Electron Transitions;
- Fluorescence;
- Fluorides;
- Spectral Bands;
- Lasers and Masers