Photoionization of an aluminum plasma by a tantalum X source
Abstract
Photoionization of a helium like aliminum plasma is carried out by an external x-source. The laser beam used corresponds to the 3d to 4F transition level of tantalum. The experimental spectrum of tantalum is shown superimposed over the emission spectrum of aluminum on diagrammatic form. Good correspondence is seen between the 3d to 4F emissions of tantalum and helium like aluminum. Plasma pumping is obtained by exposure of a tantalum target to laser rays.
- Publication:
-
The Laboratory for the Use of High-Energy Lasers
- Pub Date:
- May 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991uhel.rept..162R
- Keywords:
-
- Aluminum;
- Atomic Excitations;
- Electron States;
- Laser Plasma Interactions;
- Photoionization;
- Plasma Pumping;
- Emission Spectra;
- Tantalum;
- Transition Temperature;
- X Ray Lasers;
- Plasma Physics