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Appl Spectrosc
December 2024
Zentrum für Rieskrater und Impaktforschung, Nördlingen, Germany.
In situ optical analytical spectroscopies offer great geochemical insights due to their capability to resolve the chemical composition of regolith surfaces of rocky celestial bodies. The use of suitable calibration targets improves the precision of mineral determination, which is of critical importance for short-living, low-mobility landers, and enables, in special cases, determination of elemental composition. We investigate the capabilities of three space-relevant optical analytical techniques used for in situ mineralogical analysis, i.
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August 2024
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse 1, 85748 Garching, Germany.
We present the first observation of vibrational transitions in the [HO] anion, an intermediate in the anion-molecule reaction of water, HO, and hydride, H, using a laser-induced isotopic H/D exchange reaction action spectroscopy scheme applied to anions. The observed bands are assigned as the fundamental and first overtone of the HO-H vibrational stretching mode, based on anharmonic calculations within the vibrational perturbation theory and vibrational configuration interaction. Although the DO·D species has the lowest energy, our experiments confirm the DO·H isotope to be a sink of the H/D exchange reaction.
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March 2024
Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, TU Wien, Getreidemarkt 9/164, 1060 Vienna, Austria.
Caffeine is the most widely consumed stimulant and is the subject of significant ongoing research and discussions due to its impact on human health. The industry's need to comply with country-specific food and beverage regulations underscores the importance of monitoring caffeine levels in commercial products. In this study, we propose an alternative technique for caffeine analysis that relies on mid-infrared laser-based photothermal spectroscopy (PTS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLarge GaSe crystals were grown and various antireflection microstructures (ARMs) were fabricated on their cleaved surfaces using optimized femtosecond laser ablation, which provided the antireflection effect in a wide wavelength range of 4-16 µm. The influence of ARMs created on the GaSe surface on the change of the laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) of the crystal at a wavelength of 5 μm was evaluated. The 5-µm Fe:ZnMgSe laser with the pulse duration of 135 ns was used for the LIDT test in conditions close to single pulse exposure.
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May 2024
Combustion Physics, Department of Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Four-wave mixing techniques, such as coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS), laser-induced grating spectroscopy (LIGS), and degenerate four-wave mixing (DFWM), have been widely used in combustion diagnostics due to their advantages of high signal-to-noise ratio (S/N), coherent signal, and spatial resolution. In this work, a nano-second pulsed laser is utilized to generate mid-infrared (near 3 µm) pump beams, exciting the rovibrational transitions of nascent water in flames. Combined LIGS and DFWM measurements are demonstrated in premixed laminar CH/O/N flames with equivalence ratios from 0.
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