A supercritical fluid jet generating device (1) wherein a pulse valve (5)
is used to supersonic-jet a mixture of a supercritical fluid and a
non-volatile sample or a mixture of a supercritical fluid and a pyrolytic
sample and obtain a supersonic jet expansion, the supersonic jet
expansion is introduced via a skimmer (8) into a differential evacuation
chamber (10) under a high vacuum of at least 10.sup.-5 Torr, the jet
expansion is passed through a skimmer (12) to obtain a molecular beam (M)
under a high vacuum of at least 10.sup.-7 Torr, an
intermolecular-collision-free sample molecule in the lowest energy level
or the molecule aggregate ion of the sample molecule is obtained from the
molecular beam (M) in a laser ionization chamber (13) by means of a
resonance multi-photon ionizing method by a wavelength variable laser
(L), and the ion is mass-analyzed. Thus, the lowest energy level data on
a non-volatile or pyrolytic molecule or the molecule aggregate of that
molecule and a thermally-unstable molecule or the molecule aggregate of
that molecule or the like is obtained.