Electrical & Computer Engineering, Department of
Date of this Version
May 1983
Abstract
Laser-induced fluorescence has been employed to obtain two-dimensional images of the spatial distribution of a vapor in the ground state with nanosecond resolution. The method has a wide range of potential applications, as it can be used to observe any species which has energy levels accessible to tunable laser systems. In the application we describe, aluminum vapor was observed jetting from spark gap electrodes and diffusing throughout the gap volume.
Comments
Published in Rev. Sci. Instrum. 54 (5), May 1983. Copyright © 1983 American Institute of Physics. Used by permission.