Time-resolved laser spectroscopy on high-lying states in neutral oxygen

Summary, in English

Radiative lifetimes have been measured for five triplet states of atomic oxygen. The oxygen atoms were generated by photodissociation of NO2 and the investigated states were populated through a two-step process involving a two-photon excitation to the lowest excited triplet state of even parity, 2p33p 3P, followed by a one-photon excitation to the investigated state. A similar scheme is applicable to the study of excited states in many light atoms.

• Author: Stefan Kröll; Hans Lundberg; Anders Persson; Sune Svanberg
• Department/s: Atomic Physics
• Publishing year: 1985
• Language: English
• Pages: 284-287
• Publication/Series: Physical Review Letters
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 3
• Full text: - 153 kB; Download statistics
• Links: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v55/p284; http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.55.284
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Topic: Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1079-7114