“…It is also difficult to obtain data on resonance absorption coefficients of laser radiation in different probing directions. In this case, the possibility arises to determine a set of local parameters such as temperature, pressure, concentration of the considered components and population of individual molecular levels (Achasov et al 1985). In a number of cases, the information may be obtained on a test object through its refractive index which is connected with the gas density by the Gladstone-Dale relation n--I = K. 0,…”