<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Experiments were carried out on the PF-1000 plasma focus device, with a deuterium filling and with deuterium puffing from a gas-puff nozzle placed on the axis of the anode face. The current was reaching 2 MA. 15 interferometric frames from one shot were recorded with a Nd:YLF laser and a Mach–Zehnder interferometer, with 10–20 ns delay between the frames. As a result, the temporal and spatial distribution of the linear densities and the radial and axial velocities of the moving of plasma in the dense plasma column could be estimated.</p></abstract>

Experiments were carried out on the PF-1000 plasma focus device, with a deuterium filling and with deuterium puffing from a gas-puff nozzle placed on the axis of the anode face. The current was reaching 2 MA. 15 interferometric frames from one shot were recorded with a Nd:YLF laser and a Mach–Zehnder interferometer, with 10–20 ns delay between the frames. As a result, the temporal and spatial distribution of the linear densities and the radial and axial velocities of the moving of plasma in the dense plasma column could be estimated.

Temporal distribution of linear densities of the plasma column in a plasma focus discharge

Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technicka 2, 166 27 Prague 6, Czech Republic

Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion (IPPLM), 23 Hery Str., 01-497 Warsaw, Poland

Nukleonika

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Experiments were carried out on the PF-1000 plasma focus device, with a deuterium filling and with deuterium puffing from a gas-puff nozzle placed on the axis...

Temporal distribution of linear densities of the plasma column in a plasma focus discharge

Published Online: Jun 22, 2015

Page range: 315 - 318

Received: Jun 08, 2014

Accepted: Feb 18, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nuka-2015-0065

Keywords
plasma focus (PF), plasma pinch, plasma diagnostics

© Balzhima Cikhardtova et al.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Temporal distribution of linear densities of the plasma column in a plasma focus discharge

Published Online: Jun 22, 2015

Page range: 315 - 318

Received: Jun 08, 2014

Accepted: Feb 18, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nuka-2015-0065

Keywordsplasma focus (PF), plasma pinch, plasma diagnostics

© Balzhima Cikhardtova et al.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
plasma focus (PF), plasma pinch, plasma diagnostics