《Line profile study with tunable__ diode laser spectrometers》.pdf

Spectrochimica Acta Part A 60 (2004) 3249–3258 Line profile study with tunable diode laser spectrometers Muriel Lepère∗,1 Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Moléculaire, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, 61, rue de Bruxelles, B-5000 Namur, Belgium Received 13 October 2003; accepted 3 December 2003 Abstract In this paper, we present the different theoretical line profiles, which can be used to describe a shape of molecular transitions in dilute gases: the Voigt, Galatry, Rautian and speed dependence models. We discuss their limitations and their advantages, and present for illustration different comparisons of model results with experimental data obtained with several diode laser spectrometers suitable for precise line shape measurements. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Line profile models; Diode laser spectrometer 1. Introduction Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution for the absorber ([6] and the references in it). The goal of this paper is to present the different line pro- Precise determinations of spectroscopic line parameters files in view to reproduce, in the best way, the molecular such as collisional broadening and narrowing are very im- absorption line. portant for infrared remote sensing of the atmospheres. These line profile models take into account several ef- For precise atmospheric sounding, it is important to de- fects. The first effect