1When this work was done, the authors were with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Franklin & Marshall College, P.O. Box 3003, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17604-3003.
2J. S. Balent, Jr., is now with the Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112.
A wavelength-stabilized tunable diode laser and a reflective optical system can produce fringe-free spectra with a noise level of 10−5 absorbance units and a precision of 10−5 cm−1 in the wave-number scale.
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Results from experiment designated 2420N20.
Calculated values from Ref. 11.
Results from experiment designated 1420N20.
Results from experiment designated 0420N20.
Table II
Comparison with Heterodyne (Wells10) and Interferometric (Toth11) Measurements of the 1110–0000 Band of 14N216O.
(o − c) Values are multiplied by 106.
Difference between Wells et al. observed and calculated values.
Difference between Wells et al. observed values and Toth calculated values.
Difference between Wells et al. observed values and Toth observed values.
Difference between Wells et al. observed values and Guelachvili and Rao12 observed values.
Difference between Toth’s calculated values and this work (by using Toth’s Q16 calculated value as a reference line for the experimental spectrum).
Results from experiment designated 2420N20.
Calculated values from Ref. 11.
Results from experiment designated 1420N20.
Results from experiment designated 0420N20.
Table II
Comparison with Heterodyne (Wells10) and Interferometric (Toth11) Measurements of the 1110–0000 Band of 14N216O.
(o − c) Values are multiplied by 106.
Difference between Wells et al. observed and calculated values.
Difference between Wells et al. observed values and Toth calculated values.
Difference between Wells et al. observed values and Toth observed values.
Difference between Wells et al. observed values and Guelachvili and Rao12 observed values.
Difference between Toth’s calculated values and this work (by using Toth’s Q16 calculated value as a reference line for the experimental spectrum).