TH. INFRARED

TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2002 - 1:30PM

Room: 1000 McPHERSON LAB

Chair: EIZI HIROTA, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama Kanagawa, Japan

TH01 10min1:30

CAN ONE DETERMINE THE ELECTRIC DIPOLAR MOMENT OF ArH⁺ FROM FREQUENCY DATA?.

J. F. OGILVIE, Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6 Canada.

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TH02			15min1:42

COMPARISON OF NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL APPROACHES FOR REDUCTION OF ROTATIONAL AND VIBRATION-ROTATIONAL SPECTRA OF DIATOMIC MOLECULES TO PARAMETERS OF RADIAL FUNCTIONS.

JOHN A. COXON, Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4J3; AND MARCIN MOLSKI, Theoretical Chemistry Department, A. Mickiewicz University, ul. Grunwaldzka 6, PL 60-780 Poznań, Poland..

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TH03			15min1:59

A MULTISPECTRUM NONLINEAR LEAST SQUARES FITTING TECHNIQUE: ZERO LEVEL OFFSETS.

D. CHRIS BENNER, Department of Physics, The College of William and Mary, Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795.

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TH04			15min2:16

A PASSIVE OPTICAL FIBER RESONATOR FOR CAVITY RINGDOWN SPECTROSCOPY.

PETER TARSA, KEVIN LEHMANN, PAUL RABINOWITZ, Princeton University, Department of Chemistry, Princeton NJ 08544.

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TH05			15min2:33

APPLICATION OF CAVITY-ENHANCED SPECTROSCOPY: ULTRA-STABLE FREQUENCY LASERS AND ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY.

C. ISHIBASHI, M. L. SILVA, J. YE AND J. L. HALL, JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80309-0440.

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TH06			10min2:50

HIGH-RESOLUTION CAVITY ENHANCED ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY OF CARBON DIOXIDE AND METHANE AT 1.5 µm.

TONGMEI MA, HONGBING CHEN, A. S-C. CHEUNG, Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong.

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TH07			15min3:02

CAVITY ENHANCED ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY IN THE 0.8 µm REGION.

MAN-CHOR CHAN, S. H. YEUNG, Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N. T. Hong Kong.

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INTERMISSION

TH08			15min3:40

CONFORMATIONAL ISOMERIZATION KINETICS OF HEXAFLUOROPROPANOL IN GAS AND SOLUTION PHASE.

YEHUDI B. SELF-MEDLIN, HYUN S. YOO AND BROOKS H. PATE, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, McCormick Rd., P.O. Box 400319, Charlottesville, VA 22904.

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TH09			10min3:57

VIBRATIONAL OVERTONE SPECTROSCOPY OF HYDROFLUOROCARBONS.

ADAM H. STEEVES, BRIAN G. SAAR AND JOHN W. THOMAN JR., Department of Chemistry, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267.

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TH10			15min4:09

HIGH-RESOLUTION MID-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS USING LASER DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY SPECTROMETER .

W. CHEN, E. POULLET, J. BURIE, D. BOUCHER, Laboratoire de Physicochimie d'Atmosphère, CNRS UMR 8101, Université du Littoral Cote d'Opale, 145 Av. Maurice Schumann, 59140 Dunkerque, France.

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TH11			10min4:26

TUNABLE INFRARED SPECTROMETER BASED ON DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION IN AgGaS₂ FOR LINESHAPE STUDIES IN N₂O.

A. VITCU, R. WEHR, R. CIURYLO, J. R. DRUMMOND, A. D. MAY, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, ON, M5S 1A7, Canada.

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TH12			15min4:38

2.3 µm ROOM TEMPERATURE DIODE LASER FOR SPECTROSCOPIC APPLICATIONS.

A. R. W. MCKELLAR, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada.

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TH13			10min4:55

FIRST APPLICATION OF InAsSb/InAsSbP AND LEADCHALKOGENIDE INFRARED DIODE LASERS FOR
PHOTOACOUSTIC DETECTION IN THE 3.2 AND 5 µ m REGION..

SVATOPLUK CIVIS AND PATRIK KANIA, J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Dolejskova 3, 18223 Prague 8, Czech Republic.

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TH14			10min5:07

DYNAMIC SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENTS OF THE PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE CYCLES IN A MOPITT PRESSURE MODULATED GAS CELL.

RICK WEHR, A. VITCU, R. CIURYLO AND J. R. DRUMMOND, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7, Canada.

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TH15			15min5:19

TIME-RESOLVED FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPY WITH CONTINUOUS SCAN INTERFEROMETER.

K. KAWAGUCHI, O. BASKAKOV, Y. HOSAKI AND C. KUGIMIYA, Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.

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