Reinvestigation of pressure broadening parameters at 60-GHz band and single 118.75 GHz oxygen lines at room temperature

Low pressure measurements of broadening parameters of the 118.75 GHz fine structure line of oxygen molecule have been made by a BWO-based spectrometer with acoustic detector (RAD) at room temperature. Pressure broadening parameters were obtained for the buffer gases O-2, N-2, Ne, He, Ar, H2O, CO2, and CO and have the following values 2.23+/-0.01, 2.245+/-10.02, 1.375+/-0.02, 1.62+/-0.03, 2.005+/-0.02, 2.52+/-0.04, 2.66+/-0.08, and 2.31+/-0.05 MHz/Torr, respectively. Measured central frequency is 118 750.340+/-0.007 MHz. The central frequencies and broadenings by O-2 and N-2 of fine structure lines I+, 5(-), 7(+), 11(+), and 15(-) belonging to the 60-GHz band are also measured. Comparison of previous and recent data on electronic, rotational, and fine structure lines broadenings reveals their close values (within 10%) and dependencies on corresponding rotational quantum numbers for these different oxygen spectra stretching from millimeter through submillimeter up to the optical bands. Such similarity could be used for estimation of the broadenings of not measured yet oxygen lines. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.