M. Terzic et al., PHOTOACOUSTIC STUDY OF COLLISIONAL EFFECTS ON ROTATIONAL RELAXATION PROCESSES INDUCED BY INFRARED MULTIPHOTON ABSORPTION, Journal de physique. IV, 4(C4), 1994, pp. 739-742
The novel experimental approach is applied to investigate the cross se
ctions for rotational relaxation sigma(rot.-rel.) in the SF6-Ar mixtur
es irradiated by pulsed CO2 laser line. The applied method is the puls
ed photoacoustic technique, and it is based on proposal for sigma(rot.
-rel.) determination by transmission spectroscopy technique. The colli
sional effects have been investigated for the 0,1-0,8 J/cm2 laser flue
nce range. Also, the collisional effects on rotational and translation
al temperature (T(R)) for SF6-Ar mixtures have been calculated.