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REVIEWS OF TOPICAL PROBLEMS

Absorption of powerful resonance radiation accompanying collisional line broadening

S. I. Yakovlenko

I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy

Abstract: This review gives a systematic exposition of the qualitative problems of nonlinear laser resonance spectroscopy, taking into account the effect of the light field on the dynamics of the broadening collision and, correspondingly, on the rate of phase relaxation. The results of experiments, in which these nonlinear optocollisional effects, predicted earlier theoretically, were observed, are presented briefly.

UDC: 535.34

PACS: 42.65.-k, 07.65.-b, 32.80.Kf, 33.80.Kn

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0136.198204b.0593

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 1982, 25:4, 216–230