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Computational And Experimental Investigations Concerning Rare Gas And Dpal Lasers And A Relaxation Kinetics Investigation Of The Br2 + 2no = 2brno Equilibrium, Joel R. Schmitz

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This research contains four different research projects, the first an educational project introducing hydrogen bromide and deuterium bromide (HBr/DBr) and carbon monoxide (CO) as viable options for infrared vibration-rotation spectroscopy at 0.125 cm^-1 or 0.5 cm^-1 resolution in the teaching laboratory. The second project involved determining the spectral shifts of lanthanide fibers for diode-pumped alkali laser (DPAL) applications. Spectral shifts of lanthanides were determined using UV-VIS-NIR absorbance spectroscopy and laser-induced fluorescence (LIF). The third project entailed computing Ar* atomic energy levels and the potential energy curves of Ar*+He laser systems arising from 3p⁵4s¹ and 3p …