Abstract

Electronically excited iodine atoms [I*(²P_1/2)] are created when ICl is injected into a stream of chemically produced NCl(α¹Δ). Using an optical double-resonance technique, we observed a population inversion between the 5²P_1/2 and 5²P_3/2 states of atomic iodine.

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