Single frequency scanning laser as a plasma diagnostic
作者:
David N. Hill,
Steven Fornaca@f@f,
Michael G. Wickham@f@f,
期刊:
Review of Scientific Instruments
(AIP Available online 1983)
卷期:
Volume 54,
issue 3
页码: 309-314
ISSN:0034-6748
年代: 1983
DOI:10.1063/1.1137389
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
In this paper we report the development of the single frequency dye laser as a plasma diagnostic for measuring ion velocity distributions with a resolution limited only by the natural linewidth of the laser excited resonance transition. For the 6S1/2–6P1/2transition in Ba+this corresponds to a velocity uncertainty of 103cm/s. Velocity selection is performed by the laser as it scans the Doppler broadened plasma absorption line, in contrast with the usual method of scanning an emission line with a high‐resolution spectrometer. Both sensitivity and resolution are improved by 2 orders of magnitude, allowing nonperturbing measurements to be made at densities below 107cm−3. In addition to a description of the technique, sample measurements of time‐resolved wave induced modifications of ion velocity distributions are shown.
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