A Thermodynamical Analysis of Lineshifts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Seventh International Conference On Spectral Line Shapes Aussois (France) June 11-15, 1984 VII
4. Contents IX
5. Chapter I. Low Density And Cold Plasmas
6. Good News - Bad News ? Stark Broadening at Moderate Electron Densities 3
7. Experimental Study of Weak Forbidden Components of the Two He I Spectral Lines 35
8. Observation of 2¹P-S³D Pressure-Induced Transition in Helium 37
9. Broadening of a Valence Autoionization Resonance in Electric Fields 39
10. Stark Parameter Dependence on the Upper Level Ionization Potential 41
11. Experimental Verification of Some Stark Width and Shift Trends 43
12. Experimental Stark Widths for Phosphorus and Sulfur and Systematic Trends for Third Row Ion Line Broadening 45
13. Regularities in Rare Gas Ion Line Broadening 47
14. Experimental Determination of the Stark Widths of S II Lines 49
15. Electron Impact Broadening of Spectral Lines of Singly Ionized Noble Gases, Multiplets np²P⁰- nd²D 51
16. Stark Broadening of He I Lines of Astrophysical Interest : Regularities within Spectral Series and Influence of Debye Shielding 53
17. Stark Widths and Shifts of Ne I Lines 55
18. Stark Broadening of Br I Lines 57
19. Broadening and Shift of Neon I Lines 59
20. Stark Broadening and Shift of C I Lines in the VUV 61
21. Stark Widths and Asymmetries of Some Neutral Carbon Lines 63
22. Stark Broadening of Hydrogen Lines in the Presence of a Magnetic Field 65
23. Effects of Emitter Motion on the L_ß Stark Profiles Investigated by Varying the Plasma Temperature at Constant Electron Density 67
24. Effects of Emitter Motion on the Plasma Broadening of Hydrogen Resonance Lines 69
25. Width and Shift Measurements of Spectral Lines of He I in a Proton Gas 71
26. Stark Broadening of Hydrogen Balmer α Line at Low Densities 73
27. Lyman-alfa Stark Broadening : an Improved Impact Model 75
28. Amplitude of the Satellites of the Lyman - α Line in an Argon Plasma 77
29. Global Theory of Spectral Line Shape in the Weak Density Limit 79
30. Phase Shift Calculations for General Stark Problems 81
31. Chapter II. Plasma Shifts
32. Shifts of Ion Lines in Plasmas 85
33. Statistical Mechanics of Dense Plasmas and Implications for the Plasma Polarization Shift 121
34. Static and Dynamic Shifts of Spectral Lines 139
35. Shifts of Spectral Lines in a Plasma 141
36. Atomic Structure and Line Shift of Highly Charged Ions in Dense Plasmas 143
37. Chapter III. Hot And Dense Plasmas
38. Some. Aspects of Dense Plasma Physics 147
39. Experimental Radiation Transfer Studies Associated to Population Inversions in Laser- Plasmas 157
40. Local Fields in Strongly Coupled Plasmas 181
41. Line Broadening and Merging in Dense Plasmas 209
42. Effect of Ion Dynamics on Stark Profiles in Hot and Dense Plasmas 237
43. Effect of Short-Range Correlations on Thomson Scattering Profiles in Cesium and Barium Plasmas 239
44. Composition and Temperature Effects on Low Frequency Microfields and Their Applications 241
45. Quantum Corrections to the High - and Low - Frequency Thermal Microfields in a Dense Plasma 243
46. Monte-Carlo Calculations of Microfield Distributions 245
47. X-Ray Emission Spectra of Dense H-Like and He-Like Plasmas 247
48. Asymmetrical Broadening and Merging of Hydrogenic Lines Emitted from Dense Plasmas 249
49. Spectral Series Limit as a Diagnostic Tool for High Density Plasmas 251
50. Stark Broadening of Dielectronic Satellite Lines 253
51. Direct Comparison of Electron Density Measurements in Laser-Created Plasmas Using Stark Broadening and Satellite Line Intensities 255
52. VUV Absorption Measurements of Lyman-Alpha Lineshapes in a Cool Hydrogen Plasma 257
53. Ion Quadrupole Effects in Spectral Line Broadening 259
54. Dynamical Electric Fields in Strongly Coupled Equilibrium Plasmas 261
55. Chapter IV. Collisional Effects In Nonlinear Laser Interaction Processes
56. Collision-Induced Coherence and Population Gratings in Four-Wave Light Mixing in Sodium Vapor 265
57. Line Shapes in Four Wave Mixing Spectroscopy 287
58. Stimulated Photon Echo Techniques for Collisional Studies 309
59. Four-Wave Transverse-Longitudinal Mixing in a Plasma 335
60. Interpretation of Pump-Probe and 4-Wave Mixing Line Shapes 337
61. Line Shape of the Raman Contribution to Time-Resolved Saturation Spectroscopy - Application to Neon Metastable Levels 339
62. Forward and Backward Scattered Line Shapes in Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy 341
63. Collisional Relaxation of Atoms Excited by Laser Beam 343
64. Radiation Power Broadening of the Na-D Lines 345
65. Resonant Multiphoton Ionization of Atomic Hydrogen 347
66. Modelling Line Shapes of Laser-Induced Fluorescence in the Presence of Poisson Process Noise 349
67. Chapter V. Collision-Induced Absorption, Redistribution Of Radiation And Half Collisions
68. What are we learning from collisional redistribution ? 353
69. Laser-Induced Collision Processes: Polarization Effects and Ionization 369
70. A Molecular Half Collision Analysis of Atomic Lineshapes 393
71. Fine-Structure Effects in Far-Wing Collisional Redistribution of Light 421
72. Polarization of the Light Emitted by Photofragments 437
73. Redistribution beyond the Impact Approximation 447
74. Some Aspects of Cooperative Redistribution 469
75. Redistribution and Radiation Transfer in Astrophysical Situations 501
76. Far-Wing Redistribution Line Shapes and Fluorescence Polarizations for Ba-Ar, Xe Systems 523
77. Half Collision Analysis of ¹p Polarization Redistribution 525
78. Close-Coupling Calculations of D1/D2 Branching Ratios in Na-Rare Gas Laser-Assisted Collisions 527
79. Disorientation and Disalignment in Na-Ar Optical Collisions 529
80. Non Adiabatic Effects in Atomic Line Profiles: SemiClassical Study 531
81. Non Adiabatic Effects in Photon Assisted Scattering Phenomena 533
82. Far Wing Intensities of Collisionally Broadened Spectral Line in the Case of Strongly Perturbed States 537
83. Line Shapes in the Region of Avoided Level Crossing 539
84. Unified Franck-Condon Analysis of Radiatively Assisted Inelastic Collisions 541
85. Treatment of Non Adiabatic Collisions in Diabatic and Adiabatic Framework. An Uniform Approximation Analysis 543
86. Quench Enhancement during Half-Collisions of Laser Excited Xenon Atoms 545
87. Autoionisation Profiles in Spectra of Rare-Gas Complexes by means of a Molecular Beam Crossed with Synchrotron Radiation 547
88. Analytical Models for a Laser Switched Reactive Collision 549
89. Resonant Rayleigh Scattering in a Flame 551
90. Radiative Damping Effects in Redistribution 553
91. Cooperative Effects in the Redistribution of Intense Radiation 555
92. Correlations and Statistics of Photons in Fluorescence Radiation 557
93. Variational Calculations of Two-Level Lineshapes 559
94. Chapter VI. Neutral - Neutral Interactions And Broadening
95. Recent Progress in Molecular Structure Calculations of Alkali-Rare Gas Systems 563
96. Diabatic States from ab initio calculations. A New Method Applied to the Na(²S,²P) + N₂ system 587
97. Physical Interpretation of Line Profiles Using Square-Well Interaction Potentials 615
98. Recent Progress in the Derivation of Accurate Potentials for Alkali-Rare Gas Systems 643
99. The Broadening of the Resonance Lines of ⁶Li and ⁷Li 645
100. Visible and Near-Infrared Collisional Satellites of Atomic D-Lines in Alkali Systems 647
101. Collision Broadening and Solar Limb Effect : Na I 3p²P⁰- ns²S Lines 649
102. Broadening and Shift of Na - D Lines and Si I 4103 Å Lines by Atomic Hydrogen Created in a Combustion Driven Shock Tube 651
103. Calculation of the D-Line Peak Positions in a Sodium-Mercury Arc Using Recently Measured Interaction Potential Constants 653
104. Broadening of Dipole Forbidden S - D Lines in Homonuclear and Heteronuclear Alkali Collisional Systems 655
105. Interference Structured Continuum in Rubidium Dimer Spectrum 657
106. Study of the Shape of the Lithium Diffuse Band by Single and Double Photon Excitation 659
107. Observation of the Sodium Diffuse Bands by D Line Wing Excitation 661
108. Direct Excitation of Potassium Diffuse Band by Single Mode Ring Dye Laser 663
109. Low Lying Triplet Bands of Diatomic Alkali Molecules 665
110. The Shape of Alkali Triplet Satellite Bands 667
111. Pressure Broadening and Pressure Shift of the Intercombination Line of Cadmium (λ = 3261 Å) Perturbed by Argon 669
112. Thallium-Heavy Noble Gas Atom Excimers 671
113. Quantum Calculation of the Wing Profiles for the Mercury Resonance Line Perturbed by Krypton 673
114. High Resolution Lineshape Studies : Observations of Asymmetry and Velocity Correlations 675
115. Pressure Broadening of Neon and Helium Lines 677
116. Pressure Broadening of Argon Lines Observed in an Argon Microwave Discharge 679
117. Collision Broadening by Noble Gases in the Spectrum of Atomic Hydrogen 681
118. Interatomic Potential Determination from Rare Gas Excimer Spectra 683
119. Calculation of Transition Dipole Moments 687
120. A Thermodynamical Analysis of Lineshifts 689
121. Model Lineshape Calculations in Cryogenic Liquids 691
122. Density Effect on the Frequency of the Satellites. Case of Rb- Kr 693
123. Frequency of the Satellites at Low Density. Case of the Na - Ar Couple 695
124. Chapter VII. Molecular Line Broadening
125. Lineshapes in Molecular Spectra and Rotationally Inelastic Cross Sections 699
126. Infrared Lineshape from Resonance to the Wings 725
127. Infrared Spectral Lineshapes of Planetary Atmospheric Molecules 727
128. Analysis of the Breakdown of the Long - Range Interaction Model for Pressure Broadening by Noble Gases 729
129. Calculation of Pressure Broadened Linewidths of CO₂ Due to Self- Broadening 731
130. Calculation of Pressure Broadened Linewidths of HC1 (1-0) Perturbed by N₂, O₂, and CO Using the Semiclassical Theory of Leavitt and Korff 733
131. A Spectral Lines Analysis Method 735
132. Spectral Lineshapes of OCS Perturbed by Ar, He, H₂ in the Infrared 737
133. Interference Effects in the Rotational Doublets of OCS in the Infrared 739
134. The Line Shape of CO₂ absorption in Stark - Tuned Ammonia 741
135. Infrared Absorption and Laser-Induced Vibrational Predissociation of Gaseous NO Dimer 743
136. Study of Rotational Relaxation Times T₂ by Microwave Pulse Techniques 745
137. Moment Analysis of the Rydberg Absorption and Emission Line of Nitric Oxide in Condensed Rare Gases 747
138. Experimental Dipole Moments and Linewidth Parameters for Propyne 749
139. Semi classical Calculations of Self-Broadening Coefficients of the Raman Lines of Nitrogen 751
140. Author Index 753
141. Subject Index 757
142. Backmatter 771