PubMed · 5958291
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A L Schawlow. 1966. Lasers.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/5958291/
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Instrumentation was constructed to modulate the dye laser wavelength for background correction in laser-excited atomic fluorescence spectrometry (LEAFS). To achieve wavelength modulation a piezoelectric pusher was used to drive the wavelength tuning mirror in a laboratory-constructed grazing incidence dye laser. The laser pulses were synchronized with the piezoelectric pusher movement so that alternate laser pulses measured the atomic fluorescence signal at the analytical atomic spectral line (on-line) and the background signal at a wavelength displaced to one side of the atomic line (off-line). The background-corrected signal was obtained by subtracting the off-line "background" from the on-line "signal plus background". The spectral line width (fwhm) of the dye laser was 0.003 nm, while the wavelength modulation interval was controllable over the range from 0 to 0.2 nm with a spectral resolution limited only by the spectral line width of the laser. This type of background correction could, in principle, be applied to other types of tunable lasers such as pulsed Ti: sapphire lasers. The performance of background correction by wavelength modulation (WM) was demonstrated by measurement of sodium resonance fluorescence in an air-acetylene flame and by thallium nonresonance fluorescence in a graphite furnace. The experimental data indicated that the wavelength modulation corrected, effectively and quantitatively, for flame background, blackbody emission from a graphite furnace, and scatter of laser radiation off aluminum chloride (1 mg/mL as AI) matrix particles in both the furnace and the flame. Analytical results were in good agreement with certified values for the determination of sodium in standard reference materials by the use of modulated LEAFS.
The ultraviolet (248-nm) laser desorption of neutral peptide molecules is found to be greatly enhanced by applying a thin layer of the sample (500 monolayers) on top of an ultraviolet-absorbing organic substrate, sinapinic acid. With this sample preparation, peptides as large as gramicidin S are desorbed as intact neutral molecules. The samples are examined with laser desorption/chemical ionization (LD/CI) Fourier transform mass spectrometry. The neutrals desorbed by this method have approximately 1 eV less internal energy than those desorbed directly from a metal film surface. The organic substrate aids the desorption of neutrals when the laser wavelength is not strongly absorbed by the peptide sample (248 nm), but is not effective in aiding the desorption of neutrals when the laser wavelength is strongly absorbed by the sample (193 nm).
Experimentally determined changes in free energy (delta G(o)) for thymine-thymine interactions occurring in oligo(dT).poly(dA) are dependent on the method used for preparation of the double-stranded template. A rapid laser cross-linking technique was used to examine the equilibrium between oligomers of (dT) bound to either poly(dA) or poly(rA). The single-pulse (4-6 nsec) ultraviolet laser excitation of these polynucleotides causes pyrimidine dimer formation between contiguous oligo(dT) molecules, resulting in a "ligation" of the oligomers. Analysis of the resulting data using standard binding isotherms allowed determination of the degree of cooperativity existing between oligomers. Using the cooperativity, delta G(o), delta H(o), and delta S(o) are calculated, thereby providing thermodynamic parameters for this interaction. The measured cooperativity of oligo(dT) molecule interactions allows direct calculation of the number of 3' ends available as nicked structures or the number of 3' ends associated with gaps for oligo(dT).poly(dA) when used as a substrate for DNA synthesis.