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

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.