Search results for "Absorption"
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Doppler-free two-photon spectrum of SF_6 for metrological purposes
1998
We report on our systematic investigation of strong Doppler-free two-photon absorption in the middle infrared. The absorption frequencies for two counterpropagating waves of identical frequencies are predicted. Five of these transitions were observed with sub-Doppler resolution with a sideband CO(2) laser and were measured with 10-kHz accuracy. Knowledge of these strong two-photon absorptions frequencies will allow the improvement of secondary frequency standards in the infrared.
Effect of quantum efficiency on the performance of multijunction tandem cells
2015
New insight into the potential of practical solar cells can be given through alternative modeling approaches like Monte Carlo simulations. In the present work, the performance of three stacks of cells connected in series was examined at different levels of internal quantum efficiency. Incident photons, generated by employing the ASTM G173-03 and E490-00a data sets, are accounted for individually as they interact with the stack of cells. The values of the different bandgaps were chosen from a paper by K. Tanabe (2009), and the performance was studied based on photon dynamics.
Improving the performance of CdZnTe detectors using infrared stimulation
2011
The influence of monochromatic optical stimulation with wavelengths from 400 nm to 1100 on characteristics of the CdZnTe quasi-hemispherical detectors was studied. It was found that illumination with infrared (IR) light of wavelengths (870–900 nm) close to the absorption edge of the CdZnTe significantly improves the detectors performance at room temperature. Improvement can be achieved with low-intensity IR illumination of about 1–10 µW. The higher intensity illumination leads to degradation of the detector spectrometric characteristics. Infrared radiation penetrates into the detector sensitive volume, change the balance equilibrium between free and trapped carriers, leading to improve char…
Unusual Optical Properties of the Dense Nonequilibrium Plasma
2006
A concise overview of new optical properties of dense nonequilibrium plasma formed on the solid state target boundary is given. In this chapter, we describe phenomena such as the third harmonic generation in the skin layer, collisionless electron heating in the high frequency skin-effect regime, absorption, and reflection and transmission of radiation by a plasma with anisotropic electron distribution.
Microscopic s-wave optical potential for slow pions scattered by a nucleus.
1989
We have done a microscopic calculation of the {ital s}-wave optical potential for the pion-nucleus system at low energies, 0{le}{ital T}{sub {pi}}{le}100 MeV, using a description based on hadronic degrees of freedom. We have obtained, separately, the real and imaginary parts of the optical potential coming from one-body and two-body processes. We have also separated the imaginary part of the potential associated to absorption and to quasielastic channels. We find that the imaginary part of the absorption channel is independent of the energy (within the range of energies considered here) in agreement with a recent empirical determination. We compare our results with phenomenological potentia…
Microscopic Study of Pionic Atoms and Methods of Production
1992
We have constructed a theoretical optical potential for pionic atoms and low energy pions based on the first and second order terms of a many body expansion on the number of ph excitations. The new density dependence of the potential produces notoriously improved results in the problem of the anomalies. On the other hand we have separated the different contributions to the imaginary part of the potential and relate them to the different reaction channels, quasielastic and absorption. The agreement with the data for different channels, energies and nuclei is rather good with some isolated discrepancies. With this potential we have also investigated the deeply bound pionic states in heavy nuc…
High-resolution spectrum of the ν+ν(E),ν+ν(E),ν+ν(A), and ν3+ν4(A2) bands of the PH3 molecule: assignments and preliminary analysis
2004
Abstract The high-resolution (0.005 cm −1 ) Fourier transform infrared spectrum of PH3 is recorded in the region between 3280 and 3580 cm −1 where the following bands are located: ν 1 +ν 4 (E), ν 3 +ν 4 (E), ν 3 +ν 4 (A 1 ) , forbidden on symmetry band ν3+ν4(A2), and very weak bands ν 1 +ν 2 (A 1 ), ν 2 +ν 3 (E) . Transitions are assigned to the first four ones. Vibrational analysis of known experimental data is made.
High-resolution spectroscopy and preliminary global analysis of C–H stretching vibrations of C2H4 in the 3000 and 6000cm−1 regions
2010
Abstract Ethylene (ethene, H2C=CH2) is a naturally occurring compound in ambient air that affects atmospheric chemistry and global climate. The C2H4 spectrum is available in databases only for the 1000 and 3000 cm−1 ranges. In this work, the ethylene absorption spectrum was measured in the 6030–6250 cm−1 range with the use of a high resolution Bruker IFS 125HR Fourier-spectrometer and a two-channel opto-acoustic spectrometer with a diode laser. As a secondary standard of wavelengths, the methane absorption spectrum was used in both cases. A preliminary analysis was realized thanks to the tensorial formalism developed by the Dijon group that is implemented in the XTDS software package [39] .…
Influence of the time-coherence of light on the absorption lineshapes of low-pressure gases
2001
Abstract A property of ultrashort laser pulses, their redshift by interaction with matter, is extended to ordinary time-incoherent light by a change of the scale of time. It appears that the matter must be a gas at a pressure uncommonly low in the labs, and that the gas must have a hyperfine structure. The relative frequency shift is constant as a Doppler shift; the images are not blurred because the interaction is space-coherent. In the presence of a redshift, the absorption lines cannot be seen because they are as wide as the shift. This interaction may produce a part of the cosmological redshift, the energy lost at high frequencies being transferred to the 2.7 K radiation. The interactio…
Modeling the energy thermalization of X-ray photons in a microcalorimeter with superconducting absorber
2003
We present a modeling of the response of a microcalorimeter to the absorption of X-ray photons, based on the main microscopical processes responsible for the energy thermalization. In particular, we have modeled a microcalorimeter with superconducting tin absorber (350 micron x 350 micron x 7 micron) and neutron transmutation doped (NTD) germanium thermistor (75 micron x 50 micron x 150 micron). Such a detector, operated at 60 mK, is expected to achieve a spectral resolution as good as 1 eV FWHM in the soft X-ray energy range, based on the known sources of thermal and electronic noise. Nevertheless, the best spectral resolution measured in laboratory experimental tests is of about 5 eV FWHM…