PMID: 20101946Jan 28, 2010Paper

Collisional excitation transfer between Cs2 (B 1IIu) and Cs(6S)

Guang pu xue yu guang pu fen xi = Guang pu
Min WangYi-fan Shen

Abstract

With a Cs density of -10(15) cm(-3) and typically -2% Cs2, cesium vapor was irradiated in a glass fluorescence cell with pulses of radiation from a YAG-laser- pumped OPO laser, populating Cs2 (B 1IIu) state by one-photon absorption. Predissociation of the B 1IIu state and energy transfer in Cs2 (B 1IIu)+Cs(6S) collisions were studied using methods of atomic and molecular fluorescence. The B 1IIu (v < 10) state does not predissociate in Cs vapor excited at lambda = 736 nm. The decay signal of the time-resolved fluorescence from the B 1IIu --> X 1sigma(g)+ transition was monitored. According to the Stern-Volmer equation, a plot of reciprocal of effective lifetimes of the Cs2 (B 1IIu) state quenched by Cs(6S) atoms against its densities yielded a slope that indicated the total cross section for deactivation and an intercept(at which the Cs pressure is zero) that provided the information on the radiative lifetime of the state. The radiative lifetime is (35 +/- 7)ns for the B 1IIu state. The total cross section for deactivation of excited Cs2 [B 1IIu (v < 10)] molecules by means of collisions with Cs atoms is (4.0 +/- 0.5) x 10(-14) cm2. The B 1IIu (v > 30) state pre-dissociates in Cs vapor excited at lambda = 705 nm. At the differe...Continue Reading

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