Radiative Processes in Discharge Plasmas

✍ Scribed by John F. Waymouth (auth.), Joseph M. Proud, Lawrence H. Luessen (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 589
• Series: NATO ASI Series 149
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Overview....Pages 1-6
Tutorial Lecture — Radiative and Collisional Processes in Plasmas....Pages 7-26
Radiative Processes in Discharge Plasmas: Questions and Issues....Pages 27-37
Light Scattering....Pages 39-53
Emission Spectroscopy....Pages 55-64
Pulsed Optical Pumping in Low-Pressure Mercury Discharges....Pages 65-93
Transient Phenomena in High Pressure Discharges....Pages 95-146
Molecular Spectral Intensities in LTE Plasmas....Pages 147-170
Self-Reversed Emission Lines in Inhomogeneous Plasmas....Pages 171-247
Radiation Transport in High Pressure Discharge Lamps....Pages 249-275
Discharge Light Sources....Pages 277-308
Low-Pressure Mercury and Sodium Lamps....Pages 309-326
High-Pressure Sodium (HPS) ARCS....Pages 327-345
Metal Halide Sources....Pages 347-362
Laser-Produced Plasmas....Pages 363-379
Plasmas Sustained by Surface Waves at Microwave and RF Frequencies: Experimental Investigation and Applications....Pages 381-430
Plasmas Sustained by Surface Waves at Radio and Microwave Frequencies: Basic Processes and Modeling....Pages 431-466
Gas Discharge Laser Diagnostics Update....Pages 467-494
Laser (and Other) Diagnostics of RF Discharges....Pages 495-523
Optogalvanic Effects in the Cathode Fall....Pages 525-546
Rydberg States: Properties and Applications to Electrical Discharge Measurements....Pages 547-568
Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy....Pages 569-575
Back Matter....Pages 577-592

✦ Subjects

Characterization and Evaluation of Materials