Stark broadening corrections to laser-induced fluorescence temperature measurements in a hydrogen arcjet plume

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 4913-4918

  Storm, P Victor ^a   Cappelli, Mark A ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Arcjet; Atomic hydrogen; Balmer alpha; Doppler broadening; Electron number density; Hydrogen plasma; Laser induced fluorescence; Stark broadening; Translation temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001271936     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.004913     Document Type: Article

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