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The Optogalvanic Effect

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Lasers in Chemical Analysis

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Every scientist since Albert Einstein has been taught about the photoelectric effect (1), by which photons more energetic than the binding energy of the outer electrons on the surface of a material are capable of producing ionization. The production of ions by collisional processes in plasmas is a familiar phenomenon as well (2). With the benefits of hindsight, it is therefore reasonable to postulate a hybrid ionization process for free atoms or molecules in a plasma, whereby the outer electron is promoted to the ionization potential by a sequence of collisional and optical excitations (3) utilizing discrete electronic energy states as “stepping stones.” One would expect the presence of photons tuned to a transition to increase the ionization rate in such a system.

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Travis, J.C., DeVoe, J.R. (1981). The Optogalvanic Effect. In: Hieftje, G.M., Travis, J.C., Lytle, F.E. (eds) Lasers in Chemical Analysis. Contemporary Instrumentation and Analysis. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6009-7_5

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