Abstract
Recent researches for application of high-power rare-gas halide excimer lasers to photochemical material processing have revealed the usefulness of the excimer laser as uv radiation source for excitation of various atoms and molecules. However, the wavelengths of the excimer lasers are not sufficiently short for one-photon dissociation of many molecules which have large binding energies. Because the F2 molecular laser can emit vuv photons around 157 nm, which arises from the D′(3 П 2u) → A′(3 П 2u) transition in excited F2 molecules, it has been expected as a powerful excitation source for photochemical applications since the first demonstration of oscillation. 1) However, the obtainable output energy has been only ~10 mJ in case of the discharge pumping. 2)
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