Abstract. The self-broadening of principal series lines of rubidium and the corresponding oscillator strengths have been measured using a steel absorption tube heated up in an electric furnace. The line profiles were obtained from absorption measurements using a grating spectrograph of high resolution in the temperature range of 340-490 ~ the number densities varied from 5 -1016 to 8 9 1017 cm-3. The half widths deduced from the absorption profiles disagree with the classical impact approximation based on dipole-dipole interaction but approach closely the asymptotic values of the quantum-mechanical Reinsberg theory and of the "short-range"-calculations of Presnyakov. Oscillator strengths for the higher series lines were evaluated from the spectra agreeing very well with the asymptotic n*-3-hydrogen-like slope of the values.

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