ABSTRACT
In laser chemistry, there is much new and exciting material to appeal to chemists, in all fields, not only for those interested in photochemistry. In brief, laser chemistry may be divided roughly into the following phases. These are Chemical lasers, Tunable dye lasers, Photochemistry, Laser microprobe analysis, Spectroscopy – to replace conventional light source, Strange nonlinear effects, Some chemistry of material processing, Brief notes on thermonuclear fusion and plasma chemistry. The laser incident beam may be scattered from both gaseous and semiconductor plasmas when laser Raman spectroscopy is combined with infrared spectroscopy. This combination "considerably adds the assignment of the symmetry of molecular species". HF and DF types of chemical lasers have outputs in the near infrared. High output visible and ultraviolet (UV) chemical lasers are desired. The safety aspects of toxic chemical lasers will be mentioned in the laser safety program.
