Laser-induced optical pumping measurements of cross sections for fine- and hyperfine-structure transitions in sodium induced by collisions with helium and argon atoms

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 3402-3407

  Dobson, Chris C ^a   Sung, C C ^b  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b AMSAM RD WS ST   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; GROUND STATE; HELIUM; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PUMPING; POLARIZATION; SUBSTRATES;

FINE-STRUCTURE CROSS SECTION; FLUORESCENCE EXCITATION SPECTROSCOPY; HYPERFINE-STRUCTURE CROSS SECTION; LASER-INDUCED FLUORESCENCE (LIF); RATE EQUATIONS;

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EID: 0032621917     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.59.3402     Document Type: Article

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