Plasma polarization spectroscopy

✍ Scribed by Takashi Fujimoto, Atsushi Iwamae

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 396
• Series: Springer series on atomic, optical, and plasma physics 44
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Plasma Polarization Spectroscopy (PPS) is now becoming a standard diagnostic technique for working with laboratory plasmas. This new area needs a comprehensive framework, both experimental and theoretical. This book reviews the historical development of PPS, develops a general theoretical formulation to deal with this phenomenon, along with an overview of relevant cross sections, and reports on laboratory experiments so far performed. It also includes various facets that are interesting from this standpoint, e.g. X-ray lasers and effects of microwave irradiation. It also offers a timely discussion of instrumentation that is quite important in a practical PPS experiment.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Zeeman and Stark Effects....Pages 13-28
Plasma Spectroscopy....Pages 29-49
Population-Alignment Collisional-Radiative Model....Pages 51-68
Definition of Cross Sections for the Creation, Destruction, and Transfer of Atomic Multipole Moments by Electron Scattering: Quantum Mechanical Treatment....Pages 69-89
Collision Processes....Pages 91-126
Radiation Reabsorption....Pages 127-143
Experiments: Ionizing Plasma....Pages 145-177
Experiments: Recombining Plasma....Pages 179-184
Various Plasmas....Pages 185-213
Polarized Atomic Radiative Emission in the Presence of Electric and Magnetic Fields....Pages 215-245
Astrophysical Plasmas....Pages 247-287
Electromagnetic Waves....Pages 289-301
Instrumentation I....Pages 303-325
Instrumentation II....Pages 327-345
Back Matter....Pages 347-384