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Title: Dynamic photolytical actinometry of the vacuum-ultraviolet radiation produced by multichannel surface discharges of submicrosecond duration

Abstract

Absolute measurements of the vacuum-ultraviolet (VUV) radiation power produced by a planar broadband optical source of submicrosecond light pulse duration are carried out in the transient regime of formation of a photodissociation (bleaching) wave in a photodecomposing absorptive medium. The source is based on a multichannel surface discharge initiated in Ar/N{sub 2} gas mixtures on the area of {approx}0.1 m{sup 2}. The energetic characteristics of the produced VUV radiation are determined on the basis of spatially and temporally resolved observations of the pulsed photolysis of XeF{sub 2} vapors. It is shown that the photon flux intensity produced by the source within the spectral range of 120-200 nm reaches 1.1x10{sup 23} photons/cm{sup 2} s corresponding to the effective brightness temperature of discharge plasma of 20 kK and to the intrinsic efficiency of the discharge VUV emission of 3.2%. Numerical simulations of the photolysis process show a rather weak sensitivity of the results to the fraction of discharge radiation emitted into the line spectrum, as well as to the angular distribution of emitted radiation. The spectral band of measurements can be selected according to the choice of parent photodecomposing particles.

Authors:
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  1. Laboratoire Lasers, Plasmas et Procedes Photoniques (LP3), UMR 6182 CNRS-Universite Aix-Marseille II, Campus de Luminy, Case 917, 13288, Marseille, Cedex 9 (France)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
20953462
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Review of Scientific Instruments
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 78; Journal Issue: 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2744225; (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0034-6748
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; ABSORPTION; ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; BLEACHING; BRIGHTNESS; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; EMISSION; FAR ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; MEASURING METHODS; MIXTURES; PHOTOLYSIS; PHOTONS; SURFACES; VAPORS; XENON FLUORIDES

Citation Formats

Tcheremiskine, V I, Uteza, O P, Sentis, M L, Mikheev, L D, and Photochemical Processes Laboratory, P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninsky prospekt 53, Moscow 119991. Dynamic photolytical actinometry of the vacuum-ultraviolet radiation produced by multichannel surface discharges of submicrosecond duration. United States: N. p., 2007. Web. doi:10.1063/1.2744225.
Tcheremiskine, V I, Uteza, O P, Sentis, M L, Mikheev, L D, & Photochemical Processes Laboratory, P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninsky prospekt 53, Moscow 119991. Dynamic photolytical actinometry of the vacuum-ultraviolet radiation produced by multichannel surface discharges of submicrosecond duration. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2744225
Tcheremiskine, V I, Uteza, O P, Sentis, M L, Mikheev, L D, and Photochemical Processes Laboratory, P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninsky prospekt 53, Moscow 119991. 2007. "Dynamic photolytical actinometry of the vacuum-ultraviolet radiation produced by multichannel surface discharges of submicrosecond duration". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2744225.
@article{osti_20953462,
title = {Dynamic photolytical actinometry of the vacuum-ultraviolet radiation produced by multichannel surface discharges of submicrosecond duration},
author = {Tcheremiskine, V I and Uteza, O P and Sentis, M L and Mikheev, L D and Photochemical Processes Laboratory, P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninsky prospekt 53, Moscow 119991},
abstractNote = {Absolute measurements of the vacuum-ultraviolet (VUV) radiation power produced by a planar broadband optical source of submicrosecond light pulse duration are carried out in the transient regime of formation of a photodissociation (bleaching) wave in a photodecomposing absorptive medium. The source is based on a multichannel surface discharge initiated in Ar/N{sub 2} gas mixtures on the area of {approx}0.1 m{sup 2}. The energetic characteristics of the produced VUV radiation are determined on the basis of spatially and temporally resolved observations of the pulsed photolysis of XeF{sub 2} vapors. It is shown that the photon flux intensity produced by the source within the spectral range of 120-200 nm reaches 1.1x10{sup 23} photons/cm{sup 2} s corresponding to the effective brightness temperature of discharge plasma of 20 kK and to the intrinsic efficiency of the discharge VUV emission of 3.2%. Numerical simulations of the photolysis process show a rather weak sensitivity of the results to the fraction of discharge radiation emitted into the line spectrum, as well as to the angular distribution of emitted radiation. The spectral band of measurements can be selected according to the choice of parent photodecomposing particles.},
doi = {10.1063/1.2744225},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/20953462}, journal = {Review of Scientific Instruments},
issn = {0034-6748},
number = 6,
volume = 78,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2007},
month = {Fri Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2007}
}