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Electron Density Measurements from Stark Broadened Emission in a Sodium Plasma Produced by Laser Resonance Saturation
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Abstract
Electron Stark broadening of the $4^2D$--$3^2P$ multiplet transition in a sodium plasma produced by laser resonance saturation has provided a means of undertaking the first spatial measurements of the free electron density across and along the plasma channel created in sodium vapor of density $10^{15}$--$5\times10^{16}$~cm$^{-3}$. From these measurements and measurements of the neutral sodium density within a heat sandwich oven, we are able to deduce the corresponding electron temperature. These temperatures compare favourably with the electron temperature estimated from a Boltzmann analysis of line intensities and suggest that a highly ionized ($>$10\%) plasma of electron temperature $<$6000K can be produced within 100~ns of laser excitation from a laser of modest irradiance ($10^6$--$10^7$~Wcm$^{-2}$). The experimental results are in reasonable agreement with a recently developed 3-dimensional model which predicts a decrease in the degree of ionization along the path of the laser beam as a result of significant depletion of laser energy. These experimental results demonstrate that this LIBORS code is capable of predicting the 3-dimensional nature of this new mode of laser ionization with reasonable accuracy, and may also explain the low electron temperatures and free electron densities observed by other research teams.
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