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Optical and NIR Photodetachment Spectroscopy in External Fields Charlotte Chapter of the OSA March 15, 2001. John Yukich Davidson College Department of Physics. -. -. -. +. -. -. -. -. -. +. -. -. Negative Ion Formation. Short-range attractive potential ( ~ 2 eV by a few Å ) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Optical and NIR Photodetachment Spectroscopy
in External Fields
Charlotte Chapter of the OSAMarch 15, 2001
John YukichDavidson College
Department of Physics
Negative Ion Formation
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• Short-range attractive potential ( ~ 2 eV by a few Å )
• Electron correlation effects – responsible for covalent bonds
• Only one or two stable, bound states of the ion
Photodetachment
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• X- + photon X + e-
• ½ of electron-atom collision
• minimum photon energy necessary is known as the “electron affinity”
• Why study photodetachment in fields?
Photodetachment with B-Fields
• departing electron executes cyclotron motion in field
• motion in plane perpendicular to B is quantized to cyclotron or Landau levels separated by the cyclotron frequency ω = eB/me
• motion along axis of field is continuous, non-quantized
• for typical B = 1.0 Tesla, ω ≈ 30 GHz, period = 36 ps• quantized Landau levels add structure to detachment cross section
Detachment cross section in B field
Optical Apparatus
Diode seed Diode amplifier
Ion trap
MOPA: 250 mW single-mode tunable
SpectrumAnalyzer
8 GHz FSR
Wavemeter to 0.02 cm-1
Detachment scan in 1.0 Tesla
Time-domain spectroscopy
• Short pulse excites multiple cyclotron levels simultaneously.
• Wave packet of cyclotron states orbits atomic core with uniform cyclotron frequency.
• Subsequent short pulse probes the detached portion of the electron wave function
• Alternately: second pulse creates additional wave packet
Ramsey interferometry
• Multiple path interferometry
• Phase information of first pulse is stored in the ions
• Phase information of second pulse is then compared with that of first pulse
• Optical memory!
What about electric fields?
Photodetachment with E-Fields
Ion creation
Energy levels of O-
Detachment cross section, field-free
Ion trap
Ion trap detection electronics
Half of the wavemeter
Ultrafast apparatus