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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Spectroscopic peculiarities of electron-vibrational dynamics of diatomic molecules pumped by a femtosecond single photon field

S. A. Moiseev, M. I. Noskov

Published Apr 20, 2004• 0 citations
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Abstract

Femtosecond electron-vibrational dynamics in a gas of diatomic molecules pumped by single-photon quantum field is theoretically investigated on the basis of the femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy technique. The developed theory is applied for calculation of luminescence signal in a gas of Na2 molecules and it is found that that there is a strong dependence between the form of the temporal spectrum of the signal and the optical density of the medium.

DOI
10.1117/12.562273

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