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Physical Review A

Laser-induced quadrupole-quadrupole collisional energy transfer in Xe-Kr systems

Zhenzhong Lu, Deying Chen, Rongwei Fan, Yuanqin Xia

Published Jun 1, 2012• 7 citations
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Abstract

Experimental investigation of laser-induced quadrupole-quadrupole collisional energy transfer between Xe and Kr is reported in this paper. The excitation spectrum of laser-induced collisional energy transfer (LICET) is characterized by a slowly decreasing tail on the blue side of the peak and a width of \ensuremath{\sim}30 cm${}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$. The experimental evidence shows that in the quasistatic wing the quadrupole-quadrupole LICET spectrum follows a power law that is different from the dipole-dipole LICET line shape and the profile of the quadrupole-quadrupole LICET decreases more slowly than the dipole-dipole LICET profile. The results indicate that the laser-induced quadrupole-quadrupole collision can be considered as a practical process to transfer energy selectively from a storage state making a parity-nonallowed transition to a target state making a parity-allowed transition.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.85.063402

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A three-state model for calculating the cross section of laser-induced dipole-quadrupole collisional energy transfer in Sr-Ca system is presented. The motion equations for the probability amplitudes of the three intermediate states are obtained. The expression of the cross section is derived. Various factors including field intensity, relative speed, system temperature which influence the collisional cross section are discussed to illustrate the features of the dipole-quadrupole laser-induced collisional energy transfer (LICET)process. Calculating results show that the peak of the LICET profiles moves to the red, the tuning range of the profiles obviously becomes narrower with the laser field intensity increasing and a cross section of 1.25 × 10(-13)cm(2) at a laser intensity of 8.29 × 10(9)W/cm(2) is obtained. Our results indicate that dipole-quadrupole LICET process can be the effective way to transfer energy selectively from a storage state of arbitrary parity to a target state of arbitrary parity.
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