<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

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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

Online veröffentlicht: 22. Juni 2015

Seitenbereich: 315 - 318

Eingereicht: 08. Juni 2014

Akzeptiert: 18. Feb. 2015

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

Schlüsselwörter
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

Online veröffentlicht: 22. Juni 2015

Seitenbereich: 315 - 318

Eingereicht: 08. Juni 2014

Akzeptiert: 18. Feb. 2015

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

Schlüsselwörterplasma focus (PF), plasma pinch, plasma diagnostics

© Balzhima Cikhardtova et al.

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

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