Tunable diode laser spectrometer for pulsed supersonic jets: Application to weakly-bound complexes and clusters

Matthew D. Brookes; Changhong Xia; Jian Tang; James A. Anstey; Bryan G. Fulsom; Ke Xian Au Yong; Jenna M. King; A. R.W. McKellar

doi:10.1016/j.saa.2003.11.041

Tunable diode laser spectrometer for pulsed supersonic jets: Application to weakly-bound complexes and clusters

Matthew D. Brookes, Changhong Xia, Jian Tang, James A. Anstey, Bryan G. Fulsom, Ke Xian Au Yong, Jenna M. King, A. R.W. McKellar

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Abstract

The design and operation of an apparatus for studying infrared spectra of weakly-bound complexes is described in detail. A pulsed supersonic jet expansion is probed using a tunable Pb-salt diode laser spectrometer operated in a rapid-scan mode. The jet may be fitted with either pinhole or slit shaped nozzles, the former giving lower effective rotational temperatures, and the latter giving sharper spectral lines. Notable features of the apparatus include use of a toroidal multi-pass mirror system to give over 100 passes of the laser through the supersonic jet, use of the normal laser controller for laser sweeping during both setup and data acquisition, and use of a simple semi-automated wavenumber calibration procedure. Performance of the apparatus is illustrated with observed spectra of the van der Waals complex He-OCS, and the seeded helium clusters He_N-OCS and He_N-CO. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3235-3242
Number of pages	8
Journal	Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
Volume	60
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2003.11.041
Publication status	Published - Dec 2004
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Data acquisition systems
Infrared spectra
Laser spectrometer
Spectral lines
Tunable diode laser
Van der Waals molecules
Weakly-bound molecules

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Analytical Chemistry
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Instrumentation
Spectroscopy

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