Signal quality improvement using cylindrical confinement for laser induced breakdown spectroscopy.

Zongyu Hou1, Zhe Wang, Jianmin Liu

  • 11State Key Lab of Power Systems, Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua-BP Clean Energy Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.

Optics Express
|July 12, 2013
PubMed
Summary

A redesigned experimental setup using moderate cylindrical cavity confinement consistently improves laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) signal repeatability by stabilizing plasma morphology.