SELF-BROADENING OF THE SODIUM RESONANCE LINE AND EXCITATION-TRANSFER RATES BETWEEN THE 3 ~2P_(3/2) AND 3 ~2P_(1/2) LEVELS
Yifan Shen
The dencity of sodium was determined from measurement of optical absorption of the resonance line. Sodium vapour, in the dencity 3×10~(11) to 1.2×10~(12)cm~(-3), was excited by a cw dye laser, tuned 70 GHz from D_2 resonance line. We recorded signal intensities, consisting of The Rayleigh component at the laser frequency and the two fluorescence components (direct and sensitized) at the atomic resonance-line frequencies. D_2 line self-broadening rate coefficient [k_(br,2)=5.44×10~(-7)cm~3/s(±15%)] was yielded. Combined with the effective radiative decay rates in the presence of radiation trapping, we measured excitation-transfer rates in different dencities, for the excitation transfer process Na(3P_(3/2))+Na(3S) Na (3P_(1/2))+Na(3S). The fine-structure collisional-mining cross section [σ_(21)(3P_(3/2)→3P_(1/2))=19.9nm~2(±29%)3 at T 184℃ was obtained. Our results were compared to other experiments and to theory.
光谱学与光谱分析•Jan 1, 1992•0 citations