Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy

OCT 01, 1994

A technique based on laser ionization allows researchers to attack an array of problems ranging from measuring fundamental physical parameters of atomic nuclei to understanding the extinction of the dinosaurs.

DOI: 10.1063/1.881420

G. Samuel Hurst

Vladilen S. Letokhov

More than two decades ago a laser‐based spectroscopic technique was developed that has since proved effective in solving problems no other spectroscopic method, conventional or laser based, can tackle. Known as resonance ionization spectroscopy, it has become a very useful tool for pure and applied research in physics and chemistry (see an example in figure 1), and it has found application in many other fields, including microelectronics, the Earth sciences and biomedicine.

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More about the Authors

G. Samuel Hurst. Institute of Resonance, Ionization Spectroscopy, University of Knoxville.

Vladilen S. Letokhov. Institute of Spectroscopy of the Russian, Academy of Sciences, Troitsk.