Abstract

The thermal lens technique is applied to vibrational overtone spectroscopy of solutions of naphthalene (C₁₀H₈) in liquid hexane. The C–H fifth vibrational (Δν = 6) overtone spectrum of C₁₀H₈ is detected at room temperature for mole fractions from 0.08 to 19 × 10⁻⁶ using n-C₆H₁₄ as solvent. By detecting the absorption band in a 19 ppm (parts per million) solution, the peak absorption of the signal is approximately (2.2 ± 0.3) × 10⁻⁷cm⁻¹. A plot of normalized integrated intensity as a function of the mole fraction of naphthalene in solution reveals a dependence of the magnitude of the signal with the probe laser wavelength. If the wavelength of the probe laser is 568 nm, the thermal lens signal (TLS) is linear as a function of the mole fraction of the solution. When the wavelength of the probe laser is 488 nm, the TLS is nonlinear as a function of the concentration. Three different models of nonlinear absorption are discussed. A two-color absorption model that includes the simultaneous absorption of the pump and probe lasers could explain the enhanced magnitude and the nonlinear behavior of the TLS for solutions of mole fraction < 0.1%.

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