Self-focusing and self-defocusing of 1.6-nsec CO(2) laser pulses were observed in SF(6) gas for several selected 10-microm P-branch lines. The lines P(8), P(10), P(14), and P(16) self-focused, P(28) defocused, and either effect occurred at P(20), depending on the incident energy. The self-focusing was found to depend on incident fluence rather than on intensity and weakly on He buffer. Under the appropriate conditions beam filamentation occurred.
Evidence is reported for long-lived complexes formed in nonreactive collisions in crossed molecular beams of alkali metals and a number of compounds, most of them containing oxygen atoms. Experimental details and a description of the reduction of data into center-of-mass quantities are given. Differential scattering cross sections and distributions of final relative kinetic energy are deduced. A calculation using a statistical theory for one of the systems studied, K + SO2, is compared with the experimental results.
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