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Excited Electronic States of NaK |
L. Morgus
Lehigh University
The Doppler-free, perturbation-facilitated optical-optical double resonance (PFOODR) technique has been used to investigate the vibrational, rotational, and hyperfine structure of the 13D, 43S+, 33P, and 43P electronic states of NaK. Each electronic state is associated with a unique "signature pattern," which differentiates it from the other states in the same spectral region. A review of atomic and molecular structure will be provided followed by a discussion of the PFOODR technique and the results for each of the four triplet electronic states that have been studied using this method. |