Absiract. A formalism of time-smoothed total transition probabilities and their rates is developed which employs Laplace averages of these quantities. Under conditionspertinent to scattering processes, the Laplace-average formalism is shown to yield results equivalent to those obtained from a stationary-state formalism. Rigorous lower and upper bounds are obtained for the Laplace-averaged quantities which reduce to equalities for two-level systems. The lower bounds appear to be potentially useful for estimating lower bounds for total cross sections of various processes.
The Holstein's theory of the imprisonment of resonance radiation for pressure-broadened Lorentzian profiles is extended to the Xe-based binary gas mixtures which are widely employed in practical discharge devices. In the binary mixtures, collisions between radiating and buffer atoms modify the emission and absorption spectrum profiles, affecting the imprisonment characteristics. It is found that the imprisonment time Tp is independent of total or partial pressures, provided that the Xe mixture ratio m and discharge tube diameter D are kept constant. Tp is proportional to D1/2. It is also proportional to m1/2 when m is sufficiently small, and becomes independent of m when m approaches unity. The 'broadening coefficients' xi Xe, xi He and xi Ne are defined as degrees of broadening of the Xe emission/absorption profiles due to collisions with Xe, He and Ne, respectively, in terms of half-widths at half-maxima per unit ground state atom density. By measuring Tp using cylindrical discharge tubes of diameters D=2, 5, 10 and 25 mm filled with various mixtures of He-Xe and Ne-Xe, the unknown coefficients are determined to be xi He=1.2*10-16 m3 s-1 and xi Ne=8.0*10-17 m3 s-1. These are 0.059 and 0.039 times that of xi X3, respectively. Knowledge of the coefficients allows us to calculate imprisonment times for any gas mixture and discharge space configuration. A reduction in Tp favours an increase of luminance and luminous efficiency in two ways. One is that luminance saturation with respect to the discharge current becomes less likely to occur, and the other is that, even under the fully saturated condition, luminance is higher with smaller Tp. Smaller Xe mixture ratios and tube diameters favour shortening of Tp. A reduction of m from 1 to 0.01 results, for any value of D, in a decrease in Tp by a factor of 2.6, assuring quicker escape of VUV from the volume. Since neither the total pressure nor Xe, He or Ne partial pressures affect Tp as long as the Xe mixture ratio is kept constant, these pressures can be chosen by considering only the conditions that provide the best discharge.
Relations between electrical input and optical output of gas-discharge display panels are developed in which resonance radiation from the xenon negative glow is employed to excite phosphor of appropriate color. A panel having optimized cell configuration for maximum luminance can yield white-area luminance of only 10 fL at most when reproducing TV images using a one line at a time addressing technique. The optimization reduces the luminous efficiency to an unrealistically low value.
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