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Les dernières évolutions technologiques en matière de laser ont permis l'observation de nouveaux phénomènes hautement non-linéaires lors de l'interaction de ces sources brèves et intenses avec la matière. Du point de vue moléculaire, ces processus, tels que l'affaiblissement de la liaison ou la génération d'harmonique, sont consécutifs à la création au sein de l'ion d'un paquet d'onde vibrationnel après ionisation par effet tunnel de la molécule neutre. Il est généralement admis dans nombre d'articles que cette transition électronique conduit à une distribution des états de vibration conforme à celle prédite par l'approximation de Condon. Afin de vérifier la validité de cette assertion, nous avons mis en place un dispositif expérimental original permettant une mesure fiable de l'excitation vibrationnelle de H2+ après ionisation de la molécule neutre par un champ laser intense. Les résultats obtenus contredisent fortement le postulat selon lequel la transition aurait lieu préférentiellement à la séparation internucléaire d'équilibre (approximation de Condon) et remettent en cause les interprétations des expériences de dynamique moléculaire précédentes. En faisant varier la longueur d'onde, nous avons également mis en évidence les processus dominants et l'importance de la structure électronique au sein des différents domaines d'ionisation. Ces mesures ouvrent des perspectives intéressantes quant à la mise en place d'expériences de dynamique moléculaire utilisant un faisceau d'ions moléculaires d'excitation vibrationnelle connue. / The continuing development of femtosecond laser technology allows the study of new, highly non-linear phenomena in laser-molecule interaction. Most scientists agree that the first step of all these processes is the creation of an elctronic wavepacket in the continuum by tunnelling ionisation of the neutral molecule. As a rule, most publications were also unanimous about the vibrational population created in the ion, asumed to be properly described by the classical Condon approximation. Thanks to a unique setup we were able to measure in an unambiguous way the vibrational distribution created by intense-laser-field ionisation. Our study shows a discrepancy between our results and the one predicted by the Condon approximation. Other wavelength-dependent measurements reveal the dominant processes for the different ionisation regimes. These results open new experimental perspectives for the study of the molecular dynamics.

Presented thesis gives results obtained during the spectroscopic observations of post –discharges of the pure nitrogen plasma with small oxygen admixture and in the nitrogen – argon mixture and the effect of the pink afterglow in it. The DC discharge in the flowing regime has been used for the plasma generation. The decaying plasma was study by optical emission spectroscopy, mainly in the range of 300–800 nm. The first positive, second positive, first negative nitrogen spectral system and NO spectral systems were observed in measured spectra. The band head intensities of these bands have been studied in the dependencies on experimental conditions. Simultaneously, the relative vibrational populations on the given nitrogen states have been calculated. Two discharge tubes made from different materials (PYREX glass and QUARTZ glass) were used in the case of nitrogen plasma containing low oxygen traces (up to 0.2 %). These experiments have been carried out at two wall temperatures for the determination of the temperature effect on the post-discharge. The discharge tube around the observation point was kept at the ambient temperature (300 K) or it was cooled down to 77 K by liquid nitrogen vapor. The total gas pressure of 1 000 Pa and the discharge current of 200 mA were conserved for all these experiments. The relative populations of electronic states were calculated in the dependence on the post-discharge time. The dependencies on oxygen concentration were given, too. The results showed no simple dependence of vibrational populations on oxygen concentration. Generally, slight increase of neutral nitrogen states populations was observed with the increase of oxygen concentration. These observations were well visible due to the intensity of nitrogen pink afterglow effect that was well visible at all oxygen concentrations. The pink afterglow maximal intensity was reached at about 5–10 ms at the wall temperature of 300 K in the PYREX tube. The molecular ion emission was strongly quenched by the oxygen and as this was dominant process for the pink afterglow emission the pink afterglow effect disappears at oxygen concentration of about 2000 ppm. The temperature and wall material influences were observed, too. The post-discharge in nitrogen argon mixtures was studied only in the PYREX tube at the ambient wall temperature of 300 K. The power dissipated in an active discharge was constant of 290 kW. The experimental studies had two new parameters – total gas pressure (500 Pa – 5 000 Pa) and the argon concentrations that were varied in the range of 0–83 %. Also in this case the dependencies of relative intensities of the bands given above were obtained and further the relative populations of electronic states as a function of decay time, total gas pressure and on argon concentration were obtained. The pink afterglow effect was observed at all applied discharge powers and total gas pressures. At the highest argon concentrations, especially at lower pressure, the pink afterglow effect disappeared. The presented experimental work is one of the hugest sets of experiments in the nitrogen with oxygen traces and in nitrogen-argon mixtures. These data can be used as a very good fundament for the further studies using wide numeric modeling of the post-discharge kinetic processes.

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