Dependence of the Electronic Transition Moment on Internuclear Separation in Na₂: A Quantum Mechanical Treatment

Authors

P. F. Williams, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
D. L. Rousseau, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

December 1974

Comments

Published in Physical Review Letters, Volume 33, Number 25, 16 December 1974. Copyright © 1974 American Physical Society. Used by permission.

Abstract

We present a quantum mechanical treatment of laser-induced atomic fluorescence from molecular sodium. It is shown that such fluorescence data may be analyzed with an ν-centroid approximation and an accurate determination of the electronic transition moment may be made.