Introduction to Plasma Spectroscopy

✍ Scribed by Hans-Joachim Kunze (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 250
• Series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics 56
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Although based on lectures given for graduate students and postgraduates starting in plasma physics, this concise introduction to the fundamental processes and tools is as well directed at established researchers who are newcomers to spectroscopy and seek quick access to the diagnostics of plasmas ranging from low- to high-density technical systems at low temperatures, as well as from low- to high-density hot plasmas. Basic ideas and fundamental concepts are introduced as well as typical instrumentation from the X-ray to the infrared spectral regions. Examples, techniques and methods illustrate the possibilities.

This book directly addresses the experimentalist who actually has to carry out the experiments and their interpretation. For that reason about half of the book is devoted to experimental problems, the instrumentation, components, detectors and calibration.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-10
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Quantities of Spectroscopy....Pages 5-14
Spectroscopic Instruments....Pages 15-51
Detectors....Pages 53-74
Calibration....Pages 75-83
Radiative Processes in Plasmas....Pages 85-113
Collisional Processes....Pages 115-134
Kinetics of the Population of Atomic Levels in Plasmas....Pages 135-151
Line Broadening....Pages 153-178
Diagnostic Applications....Pages 179-204
Back Matter....Pages 1-39

✦ Subjects

Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction;Plasma Physics;Nuclear Fusion;Measurement Science and Instrumentation