Plasma Polarization Spectroscopy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fujimoto, Takashi (Editor), Iwamae, Atsushi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, 44
• Subjects: Physics.; Atomic structure.; Molecular structure.; Spectra.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Engineering.; Atomic/Molecular Structure and Spectra.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Engineering, general.

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 formulatio...

Table of Contents:

• Zeeman and Stark Effects
• Plasma Spectroscopy
• Population-Alignment Collisional-Radiative Model
• Definition of Cross Sections for the Creation, Destruction, and Transfer of Atomic Multipole Moments by Electron Scattering: Quantum Mechanical Treatment
• Collision Processes
• Radiation Reabsorption
• Experiments: Ionizing Plasma
• Experiments: Recombining Plasma
• Various Plasmas
• Polarized Atomic Radiative Emission in the Presence of Electric and Magnetic Fields
• Astrophysical Plasmas
• Electromagnetic Waves
• Instrumentation I
• Instrumentation II.