Approaches to dissociation processes of SF6 by one or two T.E.A. CO2 lasers

Abstract We present experimental results on the variation of the SF 6 dissociation rate as a function of the frequency and energy of the CO 2 T.E.A. laser. We give a possible explanation of dissociation by classical absorption mechanisms involving Δ J = ±2 transitions, and we present a process that we call “probabilities-crossing mechanism”.