The absorption coefficients for methane and nitrous oxide have been measured at 17 DF laser wavelengths in the region of 3.8 μm using a spectrophone. Concentrations of the absorbing gases very near their atmospheric concentrations were used. The absorption coefficients for the two gases at standard sea level atmospheric conditions are presented. The spectrophone device developed for this work is a differential cell which produces an equivalent absorption background signal of only 3.3×10−7 m−1/W.
Phase conjugation by degenerate four-wave mixing in the 4-microm region in germanium has been observed for both single-line and multiline radiation. By using single-line output of a DF laser at 3.8 microm, X3 has been measured to be 4 X 10(-1) esu. Phase conjugation of multiline laser output has been achieved with an efficiency of 0.03%, a level that is consistent with the susceptibility found for single-line phase conjugation and the assumption of independent conjugation of each line of the multiline output.
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