Reviews of Infrared and Millimeter Waves

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Far-Infrared Laser Lines in 12CH3F and 13CH3F

   • T. Y. Chang

   Pages 1-28

3. Submillimeter Laser Lines in Deuterated Methyl Fluoride, CD3f

   • G. Duxbury

   Pages 29-34

4. Fir Laser Lines Optically Pumped in Methyl Chloride, CH 3 35 Cℓ and CH 3 35 Cℓ

   • J-C. Deroche, G. Graner

   Pages 35-42

5. Far-Infrared Laser Lines Obtained By Optical Pumping Of the CD3Cℓ Molecule

   • Georges Graner, Jean-Claude Deroche

   Pages 43-52

6. Far-Infrared Laser Lines Obtained by Optical Pumping Of CF3Br

   • J-M. Lourtioz, C. Meyer

   Pages 53-71

7. Far-Infrared Laser Lines Obtained by Optical Pumping of the CD3Br Molecule

   • G. Graner, J-C. Deroche, C. Betrencourt-Stirnemann

   Pages 73-80

8. Submillimeter Lasers in Methyl Iodide and its Isotopic Species

   • E. Arimondo

   Pages 81-103

9. Far-Infrared Laser Lines from Optically Pumped CH3OH

   • M. Inguscio, F. Strumia, J. O. Henningsen

   Pages 105-150

10. Far-Infrared Laser Lines from Optically Pumped 13CH3 16OH

    • J. C. Petersen, J. O. Henningsen

    Pages 151-158

11. Optically Pumped Far-Infrared Laser Lines in Deuterated Methyl Alcohol, CH3OD, CH2DOH, CHD2OH, CD3OH, CD3OD

    • S. Kon, T. Kachi, Y. Tsunawaki, M. Yamanaka

    Pages 159-192

12. Optically Pumped CH3CN, CD3CM and CH3NC Lasers

    • M. Inguscio

    Pages 193-222

13. The Optically Pumped Difluoromethane Far-Infrared Laser

    • Edward J. Danielewicz

    Pages 223-250

14. Far-Infrared Laser Lines Obtained by Optical Pumping of Fluorocarbon 12, CF2Cl2

    • J-M. Lourtioz

    Pages 251-259

15. Submillimeter Laser Lines in 1, 1 Difluorethylene, CF2CH2

    • G. Duxbury

    Pages 261-275

16. Optically Pumped Far-Infrared Ammonia Lasers

    • C. O. Weiss, M. Fourrier, C. Gastaud, M. Redon

    Pages 277-335

17. List of the Optically Pumped Laser Lines of D20

    • T. A. Detemple

    Pages 337-358

18. The Sulfur Dioxide Submillimeter Wave Lasers

    • Joseph P. Sattler, Walter J. Lafferty

    Pages 359-381

19. Optically Pumped PH3 Laser Operating in the 83–223 μm Region

    • Paul D. Coleman

    Pages 383-427

20. The Optically Pumped Formic Acid Laser

    • D. Dangoisse, P. Glorieux

    Pages 429-465

This book represents a compendium of the twenty most useful far-infrared (or submillimeter) lasers. In the case of each laser described here, we have been fortunate to have the author who is the pioneer and acknowledged authority describe the principles of operation and to prepare the list of emission lines. Until these lasers were developed during the past decade, the submillimeter range of the spectrum has been almost barren due to lack of sources of radiation. The lasers described here remain the only practical, powerful source of radiation between the wavelengths of one millimeter and ten micrometers. Many hundreds of emission lines have been listed here, some providing hundreds of kilowatts of peak power in pulsed operation, others providing many tens of milliwatts of continuous power. The hundreds of wavelengths of the emission lines are so closely spaced in the wavelength range between one millimeter and one-tenth millimeter that this source of radiation can be considered to be step-tunable. Of course, labora­ tory scientists still depend upon the black body source (mercury vapor lamp) and the Fourier transform spectrometer to provide con­ tinuous spectra, but for this we must deal with true energy starva­ tion at the sub-microwatt level. This critical review can be expected to serve as a handbook for decades in the future because it contains descriptions of fundamen­ tal principles and listings of fundamental physical data.

• Fourier transform
• emission
• energy
• future
• infrared
• laser
• mercury
• radiation
• vapor

• National Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

  Kenneth J. Button

• Institute of Physics, Pisa, Italy

  M. Inguscio, F. Strumia

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