| Autor: |
Merritt EC; Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA., Lynn AG, Gilmore MA, Thoma C, Loverich J, Hsu SC |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
The Review of scientific instruments [Rev Sci Instrum] 2012 Oct; Vol. 83 (10), pp. 10D523. |
| DOI: |
10.1063/1.4734496 |
| Abstrakt: |
A multi-chord fiber-coupled interferometer is being used to make time-resolved density measurements of supersonic argon plasma jets on the Plasma Liner Experiment. The long coherence length of the laser (>10 m) allows signal and reference path lengths to be mismatched by many meters without signal degradation, making for a greatly simplified optical layout. Measured interferometry phase shifts are consistent with a partially ionized plasma in which both positive and negative phase shift values are observed depending on the ionization fraction. In this case, both free electrons and bound electrons in ions and neutral atoms contribute to the index of refraction. This paper illustrates how the interferometry data, aided by numerical modeling, are used to derive total jet density, jet propagation velocity (~15-50 km/s), jet length (~20-100 cm), and 3D expansion. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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