NOMENCLATURE, SYMBOLS, UNITS AND THEIR USAGE IN SPECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS - XIV - LASER-BASED ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY - A NEW NOTATION FOR SPECTROCHEMICAL PROCESSES - (IUPAC RECOMMENDATIONS 1997)
N. Omenetto et al., NOMENCLATURE, SYMBOLS, UNITS AND THEIR USAGE IN SPECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS - XIV - LASER-BASED ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY - A NEW NOTATION FOR SPECTROCHEMICAL PROCESSES - (IUPAC RECOMMENDATIONS 1997), Pure and applied chemistry, 70(2), 1998, pp. 517-526
This report is the 14th in a series on Spectrochemical Methods of Anal
ysis issued by IUPAC Commission V.4. Because of the complexity and the
lack of uniformity of the present nomenclature (e.g. ''2 step excited
resonance fluorescence'', ''resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization
'', etc.) a new way is needed to describe these transitions. The aim o
f this document is therefore to present a new notation, the IUPAC Nota
tion, to describe the various processes involved in atomic laser spect
roscopy. Using a few assumptions as detailed below, this notation has
the advantage of being simple and systematic. States and processes can
be described in a general way irrespective of the type of laser spect
rometry.