Evaluation of Nd-glass laser systems for incoherent Thomson scattering diagnostics of low density plasmas
| Autor: | B. A. Jacoby, R. A. Mollo, T. M. York |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Voigt profile
Physics business.industry Thomson scattering Materials Science (miscellaneous) Ruby laser Incoherent scatter Laser Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Light scattering law.invention Optics law Laser power scaling Business and International Management business Inertial confinement fusion |
| Zdroj: | Applied optics. 19(13) |
| ISSN: | 1559-128X |
| Popis: | Conventional Thomson scattering using a ruby laser evidences difficulty in scattered signal detection for electron densities10(13) cm(-3). Use of a Nd-glass laser source in combination with appropriate detectors can result in gains in the resolution of scattered signal of at least 1 order of magnitude over a conventional ruby laser system. However, due to the ~2.5-nm full bandwidth of a Nd-glass laser line, the electron temperature information in the incoherent scattered signal must be extracted from a Voigt profile, not from the usual Gaussian profile as when a ruby laser is used. |
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