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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
卷 116, 期 20, 页码 -出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/5.0001924
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- National Science Foundation (NSF) [CBET-1604633]
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-18-1-0141]
- Robert A. Welch Foundation [A-1261, A-1547]
- Office of Naval Research [N00014-20-1-2184, N00014-16-1-2578]
- King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST)
We investigate the excited-state dynamics of hydrogen (H) atoms in flames by using a femtosecond (fs) pump-probe scheme and measuring directional emission signals. An approximately 100-fs pump pulse at 205.1nm excites H atoms through a two-photon process (n=3 <-<- n=1), which is followed by detection of the forward emission signals induced by a broadband fs probe pulse near 656nm. Above a certain threshold, we observe a quadratic dependence of the emission signal on the pump laser energy. Moreover, the linewidth of the forward emission signal varies with the probe delay and the probe laser energy. This behavior can be explained in terms of superradiance. We perform a theoretical analysis and compare the experimental results with the theory, and conclude that, within the conditions of our experiment, the behavior of the atomic system involves atomic coherence, which is produced non-adiabatically and corresponds to a superradiant process. Variations in the duration of the gain time window and lifetime of the excited-state H atoms in flames are explored at different flame conditions (i.e., equivalence ratio and heights above the burner). The fs pump-probe technique demonstrated here can also be extended to characterize the time-resolved population dynamics and the corresponding collisional energy transfer rates for energy levels involved in laser-induced fluorescence detection of H atoms in flames relevant to practical combustion applications.
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