Mercury-rare gas visible-UV laser

Optically pumped microplasma rare gas laser.

The optically pumped rare-gas metastable laser is a chemically inert analogue to three-state optically pumped alkali laser systems. The concept requires efficient generation of electronically excited metastable atoms in a continuous-wave (CW) electric discharge in flowing gas mixtures near atmospheric pressure. We have observed CW optical gain and laser oscillation at 912.3 nm using a linear mi...

Basic UV/Visible Spectrophotometry

UV-visible aerosol optical thickness

Validation of UV-visible aerosol optical thickness retrieved from spectroradiometer measurements C. Brogniez, V. Buchard, and F. Auriol LOA/CNRS, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France Received: 18 January 2008 – Accepted: 21 January 2008 – Published: 26 February 2008 Correspondence to: C. Brogniez ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behal...

Laser-induced electron diffraction for probing rare gas atoms.

Recently, using midinfrared laser-induced electron diffraction (LIED), snapshots of a vibrating diatomic molecule on a femtosecond time scale have been captured [C.I. Blaga et al., Nature (London) 483, 194 (2012)]. In this Letter, a comprehensive treatment for the atomic LIED response is reported, a critical step in generalizing this imaging method. Electron-ion differential cross sections (DCS...

Small rare gas clusters in XUV laser pulses

Semi-classical molecular dynamics simulations of small rare gas clusters in short laser pulses of 100nm wavelength were performed. For comparison, the cluster response to 800nm laser pulses was investigated as well. The inner ionization dynamics of the multi-electron atoms inside the cluster was treated explicitly. The simulation results underpin that at XUV wavelengths collisions play an impor...