Chemical oxygen‐iodine lasers are unique in their ability to generate high‐power beams
with near diffraction limited beam quality. The operating wavelength, 1.315 µm is readily …

The high degree of vibrational excitation of O 2 ground state molecules recently observed in
inductively coupled plasma discharges is investigated experimentally in more detail and …

Cold atmospheric-pressure plasmas in Ar+ H 2 O gas mixtures are a promising alternative to
He+ H 2 O plasmas as both can produce reactive oxygen species of relevance for many …

The first high energy lasers were demonstrated in the mid-1960s and have made
tremendous strides over the past 40+ years. This paper presents a sampling of the older …

Rapid quenching of O2 (a1Δ) in O (3P)/O2/O3 mixtures has been observed. Oxygen atoms
and singlet oxygen O2 (a) molecules were produced by 248nm laser photolysis of ozone …

Photochemical processes involving singlet oxygen (O2 (a1Δ)), oxygen atoms, and ozone
are critical in determining atmospheric ozone concentrations. Here we report on kinetic …

Rate constants for the removal of O2 (b1Σg+) by collisions with O2, N2, CO2, and H2O have
been determined over the temperature range from 297 to 800 K. O2 (b1Σg+) was excited by …

The exciplex pumped alkali laser (XPAL) system was recently demonstrated in mixtures of
Cs vapor, Ar, and ethane, by pumping Cs-Ar atomic collision pairs and subsequent …

The kinetics of oxygen species in the gaseous medium of a discharge singlet oxygen
generator has been revisited. Vibrationally excited ozone O 3 (υ) formed in O+ O 2 …

The dissociation of I 2 molecules at the optical axis of a supersonic chemical oxygen-iodine
laser (COIL) was studied via detailed measurements and three-dimensional computational …