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N/sub 2/ pressure - broadened O/sub 3/ line widths and strengths near 1129. 4 cm-1

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6422254

A Beer's Law experiment was performed with a tunable diode laser to find the N/sub 2/ pressure broadening characteristics of a single 0/sub 3/ absorption line at 1129.426 cm for N/sub 2/ pressures from 10 to 100 torr (O/sub 3/ pressure 3.16 torr). SO/sub 2/ line positions were used for wavelength calibration. Line shapes were interatively fitted to a Lorentz function. Results were delta (HWHM in MHz) 47.44 (+ or - 5.34) MHz + 1.730 (+ or - 0.088) MHz/torr *p(torr) with sigma 0.9897. This intercept compares well with the Doppler O/sub 3/ - O/sub 3/ broadened (at 3.16 torr) width of 44.52 Hz. This result in a HWHM line width of 0.44 cm atm at 760 torr and 285 K. The line strengths integrated over delta nu 0.55 cm were found to be N/sub 2/ pressure dependent.

Research Organization:
Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA (USA)
OSTI ID:
6422254
Report Number(s):
NASA-CR-168999
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English