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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics

2018 year, number 10

The influence of water vapor on 266 nm radiation absorption by aluminum optical mirror

A.N. Kuryak, B.A. Tikhomirov
E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, 1, Academician Zuev square, Tomsk, 634055, Russia
Keywords: зеркало, коэффициент отражения и поглощения, многоходовая кювета, оптико-акустический метод, адсорбция, водяной пар, mirror, absorption and reflection coefficients, multi-pass cell, photoacoustic technique, adsorption, water vapor

Abstract

A high sensitive technique of photoacoustic calorimetry is used in the study of the effect of H2O molecules adsorbed on the surface of an aluminum optical mirror on the absorption of radiation 266 nm. It was found that the addition of water vapor with partial pressures P H2O = 7,9 mbar and P H2O = 15 mbar to the dry air of atmospheric pressure increases the absorption of radiation 266 nm on the surface of the “dry” mirror by 12% and 21%, respectively. The results of numerical simulation of the transmittance of a multi-pass spectrophotometric cell indicate the extreme need to take into account the observed effect in the measurements of the absorption spectra of atmospheric air containing water vapor, using multi-pass cells.