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Previous investigations of alkali-rare gas spectral satellites are incomplete, causing many of these satellites to remain unidentified or ill-characterized in the literature. The data presented in this work were captured by illuminating heated alkali vapor-rare gas cells with a xenon lamp and recording the spectra using a Yokogawa 6370D Optical Spectrum Analyzer. To generate a sufficient alkali vapor number density to observe satellites, the cells were placed in an oven and heated to temperatures between 353 K and 513K. The knowledge of alkali-rare gas blue satellites has the potential to be significant for the creation of low-divergence, high-power lasers for application as directed energy weapons and in anti-missile defense measures."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Satellite bands of absorption in alkali vapor–rare gas mixtures"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Eden, James G"],"dc:creator":["Messing, Stephen"],"dc:date":["2023-12","2023-12-07"],"dc:description":["Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01","The student, Stephen Messing, accepted the attached license on 2023-12-06 at 20:38.","The student, Stephen Messing, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2023-12-06 at 20:52.","This Thesis was approved for publication on 2023-12-07 at 10:50.","DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #20164 on 2024-03-01 at 13:32:43","Absorption spectra for alkali-rare gas spectral satellites and alkali dimers in potassium, rubidium, and cesium are presented. 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