Effect of steady magnetic field on laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 3662-3669

  Rai, Virendra N ^a,b   Zhang, Hansheng ^a   Yueh, Fang Y ^a   Singh, Jagdish P ^a   Kumar, Akshaya ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RAJA RAMANNA CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT EMISSION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMA DENSITY; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

LASER-INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY;

LASER BEAM EFFECTS;

EID: 0038379722     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.003662     Document Type: Article

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