ME. SYMPOSIUM: ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY

MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1996 - 1:30PM

Room: 1153 SMITH LAB

Chair: FREDERIC STOECKEL, Université J. Fourier, Grenoble, France

ME01 INVITED TALK 30min1:30

CAVITY RINGDOWN SPECTROSCOPY: A LOOK INSIDE THE CAVITY.

ANTHONY O'KEEFE, Los Gatos Research, 1685 Plymouth Street, Mountain View CA 94043.

ME02		15min2:05

THE SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLE OF OPTICS AND CAVITY RING DOWN SPECTROSCOPY.

K. K. LEHMANN, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton N. J. 08544; D. ROMANINI, Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique -- CNRS URA 08, Université J. Fourier/Grenoble, B.P. 87 -- 38402 Saint Martin d'Héres Cedex, France.

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ME03		15min2:22

A FOURIER TRANSFORM CAVITY RING DOWN SPECTROMETER.

RICHARD ENGELN AND GERARD MEIJER, Dept. of Molecular and Laser Physics, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld, 6526 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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ME04		15min2:39

DIRECT-ABSORPTION OBSERVATION OF A DOUBLY-FORBIDDEN ELECTRONIC TRANSITION IN DIACETYLENE USING CAVITY RING-DOWN SPECTROSCOPY.

B. GILES, C. A. ARRINGTON, F. C. HAGEMEISTER AND T. S. ZWIER, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1393.

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ME05		15min2:56

INFRARED CAVITY RINGDOWN LASER ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY (IR-CRLAS) OF JET-COOLED WATER CLUSTERS.

J. B. PAUL, C. P. COLLIER, R. J. SAYKALLY, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; J. J. SCHERER, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore CA 94551.

ME06		15min3:13

INFRARED CAVITY RINGDOWN LASER ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY (IR-CRLAS) IN LOW PRESSURE FLAMES.

J. J. SCHERER AND D. J. RAKESTRAW, Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories (M/S 9055), Livermore, CA 94551.

ME07		15min3:30

QUANTITATIVE ABSORPTION MEASUREMENTS USING CAVITY RING DOWN SPECTROSCOPY.

R. D. VAN ZEE, J. P. LOONEY, J. T. HODGES, Process Measurements Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.

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INTERMISSION

ME08		10min4:00

LASER ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY OF TiCl⁺ : ANALYSIS OF THE [17.9]³ Delta

-X³

(0,0) BAND.

L. A. KALEDIN, J. P. PARRISH AND M. C. HEAVEN, Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.

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ME09		15 min4:12

DOUBLE MODULATION TECHNIQUE IN PULSED JET EXPERIMENTS: MOLECULAR VAN DER WAALS COMPLEXES.

I. PAK, M. HEPP, D. ROTH AND G. WINNEWISSER, I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, 50937 Köln, Germany.

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ME10		15min4:29

RESONANT FOUR-WAVE MIXING PROBES OF JET-COOLED POLYATOMIC MOLECULES: INFRARED DEGENERATE FOUR WAVE MIXING AND INFRARED/VISIBLE LASER INDUCED GRATING SPECTROSCOPIES.

S. A. REID AND Y. TANG, Department of Chemistry, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881.

ME11		10min4:46

HIGH SENSITIVITY DETECTION OF TRICHLOROETHYLENE USING FREQUENCY-MODULATED TUNABLE DIODE LASERS.

CHI KONG NG, KHOSROW NAMJOU AND EDWARD A. WHITTAKER, Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ 07030.

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ME12		15min4:58

INTRACAVITY SATURATED ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY OF THE 1.6-MICRON MOLECULAR OVERTONE BAND.

H. SASADA AND K. SUZUMURA, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama 223, Japan.

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ME13		10min5:15

PRESSURE BROADENING OF THE O₂ B BAND MEASURED BY CAVITY RING-DOWN SPECTROSCOPY.

D. C. ROBIE, N. SEISER, Department of Chemistry, Barnard College, New York, NY 10027.

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ME14		10min5:27

APPLICATION OF THE CAVITY RING-DOWN TECHNIQUE TO WATER VAPOUR CONTINUUM MEASUREMENTS.

JOHN G. CORMIER AND JAMES R. DRUMMOND, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ont., Canada, M5S 1A7.

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