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On Stark broadening as a tool for diagnostics of high density plasmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2005

C. STEHLÉ ,
M. BUSQUET ,
D. GILLES  and
A.V. DEMURA
C. STEHLÉ
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de l'Univers et de ses Théories, UMR 8102 du CNRS, Meudon, France
M. BUSQUET
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de l'Univers et de ses Théories, UMR 8102 du CNRS, Meudon, France
D. GILLES
Affiliation:
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Bruyères-le-Châtel, France
A.V. DEMURA
Affiliation:
Hydrogen Energy & Plasma Technology Institute, State Research Center of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
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Abstract

We present the current status-of-the-art in Stark broadening theory as a theoretical basis for diagnostics of low temperature plasmas in gas discharges, and of high temperature laser produced or z-pinch dense plasmas. The diagnostics abilities vary depending on the parameters of the gas discharges, or on the range of intensity, and duration of the laser or z-pinch pulses. In the case of high temperature plasmas, besides the conventional diagnostics based on the Stark broadening, the contemporary possibilities of UV and XUV interferometry for plasma density measurements and of tomography reconstruction of the macroscopic gradients of temperature and densities in laser produced plasmas are discussed.

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Dense plasma diagnosticsInterferometryLaserStark broadeningz-pinch

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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , September 2005 , pp. 357 - 363
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This paper was presented at the 28th ECLIM conference in Rome, Italy

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