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Polari interferometer with automatic images processing for laser plasma diagnostic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

T. Pisarczyk
Affiliation:
Institute of Optoelectronics Military University of Technology, 00–908 Warsaw 49, Poland
R. Arendzikowski
Affiliation:
Institute of Optoelectronics Military University of Technology, 00–908 Warsaw 49, Poland
Z. Patron
Affiliation:
Institute of Optoelectronics Military University of Technology, 00–908 Warsaw 49, Poland
P. Parys
Affiliation:
Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, 00–908 Warsaw 49, Poland

Abstract

Automated three-channel polari-interferometer measurements of electron density distributions and magnetic fields in a laser plasma are presented. Each of the polari-interferometer channels, interferometric, Faraday, and “tenebral” (shadow), has been equipped with a CCD camera with the matrix (512 × 512). With special software for each of the channels, not only the distribution of the electron density on the basis of interferograms is obtained, but also the distributions of magnetic fields in plasma using the information from the Faraday and shadow images. The results of testing investigations obtained in the plasma experiment are the main part of this work.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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