A Study of Behavior and Properties of a Plasma under Conditions of Rapid Heating.
Abstract
Investigations of the properties of a small linear electromagnetic shock tube reveal the following: At pressures of about 1 Torr in helium there can be very large deviations from local thermal equilibrium; in argon the reverse can be true, and good measurements of conventional plasma properties are possible; precursor effects in helium are very strong, and occur because of a very specific sequence of ultraviolet radiations from the discharge chamber, rather than from potential waves or particles. Preliminary studies of energy transfer in a plasma typical of pulsed argon-ion lasers indicate new relationships of trapping of resonance radiation and wall effects to laser behavior. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1973
- Accession Number
- AD0766831
Entities
People
- Donald E. Kerr
Organizations
- Johns Hopkins University