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Measurement method for electric fields based on stark spectroscopy of argon atoms
Gavrilenko1, Kim, Ikutake
1Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Kasuga Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan.
Abstract:
We report the development of a method for the measurement of electric fields in glow discharge plasmas, based on Stark spectroscopy of argon atoms. The method is based on laser excitation of transitions in atomic argon. The key feature of the method is that the electric field is determined by matching experimentally obtained absorption spectra to theoretically calculated spectra. The dependence of the positions of energy levels of argon atoms on the strength of the electric field was calculated by solving the Schrodinger equation for the argon atom. Measurements of Stark spectra were made in the sheath region of a glow discharge using laser optogalvanic spectroscopy. The wavelength of the laser radiation was tuned to the transitions 4s-->nf (n=7,8,ellipsis,14) of the argon atom. For n=11, the lower limit for electric field measurements was estimated to be 14 V/mm.
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