Transition saturation in ethylene observed with infrared photothermal spectrometry

Stephen E. Bialkowski; Zhi-fang He

doi:10.1117/12.59332

1 May 1992 Transition saturation in ethylene observed with infrared photothermal spectrometry

Stephen E. Bialkowski, Zhi-fang He

Proceedings Volume 1637, Environmental and Process Monitoring Technologies; (1992) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.59332
Event: OE/LASE '92, 1992, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

Pulsed infrared laser excited photothermal spectroscopy is used to study the nonlinear infrared absorption character of ethylene. Ethylene exhibits apparent optical saturation when high irradiance CO₂ lasers are used for excitation. In these experiments a pulsed TEA-CO₂ laser tuned to the 1OP(14) line at 949.49 cm^-1 is used to excite the v7 transition of ethylene and photothermal lens spectrometry is used to monitor the resulting thermal perturbation. The data are obtained as the thermal lens signal versus excitation irradiance, linearized to account for nonlinearities in the apparatus response, and processed to yield 'apparent' absorption coefficient versus excitation irradiance. Apparent absorption coefficient data are then modeled based on the vibrational energy level structure and the interaction of the Gaussian excitation source with the nonlinear system. Assumptions are used to derive a reasonable vibrational state model based on probable excited states involved in the kinetic saturation. Saturation irradiance and related parameters for ethylene in Ar, He, and N2 buffer gases are given. The saturation irradiance results suggest a vibrational relaxation up to 4 orders of magnitude faster than shown in previous work. This high relaxation rate is probably due to a break down in the steady state aproximation used to solve the rate expressions.

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Stephen E. Bialkowski and Zhi-fang He "Transition saturation in ethylene observed with infrared photothermal spectrometry", Proc. SPIE 1637, Environmental and Process Monitoring Technologies, (1 May 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.59332

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