Abstract
Doppler-free Stark Spectra of the 40 1 band of the Ã1A2—[Xtilde]1A1 system of thioformaldehyde have been obtained using the technique of intermodulated fluorescence. Fully resolved m structures have been obtained for ten lines with linewidths of about 5 MHz. The a component of the dipole moment of the molecule in the excited state is 0·815 ± 0·020 Debye, but values from 0·77 D to 0·93 D have been derived from some of the Stark patterns depending on the degree of mixing of the excited-state levels with high rovibronic levels of the ground state.