Multiphoton evanescent wave spectroscopy and dynamics

Vladimir G. Bordo; Horst-Guenter Rubahn

doi:10.1117/12.449526

5 December 2001 Multiphoton evanescent wave spectroscopy and dynamics

Proceedings Volume 4456, Controlling and Using Light in Nanometric Domains; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.449526
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2001, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Non-intrusive laser-spectroscopical methods for the diagnostics of the gas-surface interaction in the near-field of a dielectric surface have been developed both experimentally and theoretically. The techniques base on either two-photon evanescent wave excitation or combined evanescent-volume wave excitation. Spectra obtained for sodium atoms at a glass-vacuum interface are quantitatively reproduced by a rigorous theoretical approach. In the case of pure evanescent wave excitation the excitation conditions can be chosen such that either the velocity distribution of desorbing atoms is determined or that atom-surface interaction parameters (polarizability of the adsorbed atoms, desorption rate, sticking coefficient) are obtained from the Autler- Townes splitting of the two-photon lines. By the use of combined evanescent-volume wave excitation one is able to distinguish optically between different groups of atoms interacting with the surface and one can extract their two- dimensional velocity distributions. In addition, information is obtained about superelastic scattering of the atoms interacting with the dielectric substrate.

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Vladimir G. Bordo and Horst-Guenter Rubahn "Multiphoton evanescent wave spectroscopy and dynamics", Proc. SPIE 4456, Controlling and Using Light in Nanometric Domains, (5 December 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.449526

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