Observations of Population Inversion between the $Λ$ -Doublet States of OH

26 April 1976

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 36 (17) , 1031-1034
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.36.1031

Abstract

Inverted population distribution between

Λ

-doublet states of OH produced in the reaction H + N

O_{2}

→ OH + NO has been observed in a beam maser and in a molecular-beam electric-resonance spectrometer. The observed inversions are of the order of 4-6% for the

{}^{2}Π_{\frac{3}{2}}

J = \frac{3}{2}, \frac{5}{2}, \frac{7}{2}

, and the

{}^{2}Π_{\frac{1}{2}}

J = \frac{1}{2}

states, and less than 1% for the

{}^{2}Π_{\frac{1}{2}}

J = \frac{3}{2}, \frac{5}{2}, \frac{7}{2}, and \frac{9}{2}

states.

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Observations of Population Inversion between theΛ-Doublet States of OH

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Observations of Population Inversion between the $Λ$ -Doublet States of OH