Acquisition of Tunable Infarared Laser Instrumentation

激光为化学家和物理学家提供了利用大部分红外光谱进行高分辨率、高灵敏度实验的手段。如果将激光仪器合并为一个中央激光实验室，可以有效地加强一批顶尖研究人员的研究。耶鲁大学化学系将使用来自化学仪器项目和原子、分子和等离子体物理项目的这笔资金来帮助获得现代激光仪器。此次收购将加强的研究领域包括：1)瞬态化学物质的结构和键合2)氧气和其他大气气体；特定光激发能级、衰减速率和机制的表征3)原子和分子里德伯态光谱4)离子团簇的结构。

Lasers provide the chemist and physicist with the means of carrying out high resolution, high sensitivity experiments using most of the infrared spectrum. If laser instrumentation is combined into a central laser laboratory, the research of a group of top-notch investigators can be effectively enhanced. The Department of Chemistry at Yale University will use this award from the Chemical Instrumentation Program and the Atomic, Molecular, and Plasma Physics Program to help acquire modern laser instrumentation. The areas of research that will be enhanced by the acquisition include the following: 1) Structure and bonding in transient chemical species 2) Oxygen and other atmospheric gasses: characterization of specific optically excited levels, decay rates and mechanisms 3) Atomic and molecular Rydberg state spectroscopy 4) Structures of ionic clusters.