Abstract

This paper describes a new two-step saturated fluorescence technique¹ that significantly extends the number of atomic and molecular species to which saturated fluorescence can be applied. A major advantage of this method is that easily obtained laser wavelengths in the visible can be used to saturate appropriate transitions, even for species in which the most readily accessible (i.e., tongest-wavelength) optical transition falls in the VUV.

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