Kinetische Prozesse in einem photochemischen Jodlaser * Kinetic Processes in a Photochemical Iodine Laser / Kinetic Processes in a Photochemical Iodine Laser

Abstract

Time-dependent gain measurements of a pulsed iodine laser amplifier have been used to deter-mine decay rates of excited iodine atoms 5²P_1/2 . Rate constants are reported for the iodine deactivation by CF₃I and C₂F₆ . Attempts to correlate the results with predictions from a kinetic model indicate that excited iodine atoms are formed not only in the primary photolysis but also by additional chemical processes.