Abstract

The absorption coefficient of a dense sodium vapor (N 0 ∼ 1017–1018 cm− 3) in the near infrared spectral range (0.8–2.6 µm) was measured in a homogeneously heated isolated cell. In the range of parameters studied, the sample exhibits significant absorption. Neither the observed spectral features nor the measured absorption coefficients can be explained using the existing notions of the possible absorption mechanisms (absorption due to a forbidden intercombination transition, collision-induced processes, the trimer vapor component, and many-particle effects) and the available data.

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