Quantum efficiency improvement of a cesium based resonance fluorescence detector by helium-induced collisional excitation energy transfer

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 765-774

  Correll, Tiffany L ^a   Horvatic, Vlasta ^b   Omenetto, Nicoló ^a   Vadla, Cedomil ^b   Winefordner, James D ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Alkali noble gas mixture; Atomic line filter; Cesium; Collision transfer; Energy transfer; Resonance fluorescence detector

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; IONIZATION; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

ALKALI-NOBLE GAS MIXTURE; ATOMIC LINE FILTERS; COLLISION TRANSFER; RESONANCE FLUORESCENCE DETECTORS;

CESIUM;

EID: 22344436929     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2005.05.001     Document Type: Article

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