Cryogenic multiple reflection absorption cell and Fourier transform spectrometer system for the far infrared

Autor: A. Leung, H. P. Gush, E. H. Wishnow
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Review of Scientific Instruments. 70:23-31
ISSN: 1089-7623
0034-6748
DOI: 10.1063/1.1149537
Popis: A far-infrared system used to measure weak absorption spectra of gases at pressures up to a few atmospheres and at temperatures as low as 20 K is described. The principal component is a multiple reflection mirror cell, cooled either with liquid nitrogen or with the boil-off gas from liquid helium. The cell, of 35 l volume, has an f/10 optical beam and a pathlength which can be varied from 4 to 60 m. At the longest pathlength diffraction limits the lowest usable frequency to 20 cm−1. The cell is coupled to a Fourier transform spectrometer and a 1.6 K bolometer. The apparatus has been used in a detailed study of the collision-induced pure translational band of H2, and the translation–rotation bands of N2 and N2–Ar mixtures.
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