Spatially resolved determination of atomic particle densities and line shapes within an arc plasma by tomographic resonance interferometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 33, 1997, Pages 8806-8814

  Pretzler, Georg ^a,b   Haas, Christian ^a   Neger, Theo ^a   Jäger, Helmut ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Plasma diagnostics; Refractive tomography; Resonance interferometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0542442177     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.008806     Document Type: Article

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