Plasma Diagnostics Using CO2 Laser Absorption and Interferometry
- 1 February 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 43 (2), 574-577
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1661158
Abstract
Absorption of CO2 laser radiation is experimentally shown to be a useful plasma‐diagnostic technique, spatially, temporally, and quantitatively. Electron densities determined from absorption agree well with shock‐produced plasma values. Comparison of densities obtained via absorption, interferometry, and Langmuir probes in a plasma jet also show good agreement in magnitude and spatial dependence.Keywords
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