“…The polarisability ~I , R I of the iodine atoms bound to the carbon atoms in the C3FyI molecule and those of the free iodine atoms in the excited and the ground state, ~I , E and ~I , G , are not very different from each other. According to our estimates and the measurements of Padrick and Palmer (1975) where NIRO is the CsF,I-number density prior to the photolysis the index of refraction PZIR is simply given by It turns out that the index of refraction is constant and not changed by the photolysis although the temperature of the mixture is raised as a consequence of the fact that at each dissociation process an energy of 1.5 eV is set free.? This statement also seems to be true when the pump light is not homogeneously absorbed over the cross-section of the laser tube, when for example the dissociation rate is larger at the edge than on the axis of the tube.…”