Plasma Polarization Spectroscopy (PPS) is now becoming a standard diagnostic technique for working with laboratory plasmas. This new area needs a comprehensive framework, both experimental and theoretical. This book reviews the historical development of PPS, develops a general theoretical formulation to deal with this phenomenon, along with an overview of relevant cross sections, and reports on laboratory experiments so far performed. It also includes various facets that are interesting from this standpoint, e.g. X-ray lasers and effects of microwave irradiation. It also offers a timely discussion of instrumentation that is quite important in a practical PPS experiment.

Autorentext

T. Fujimoto graduated from Kyoto University in 1964, finished his PhD. in 1969. He has been professor of Kyoto University from 1982 to 2005. He published "Plasma Spectroscopy" from Oxford University Press in 2004.

A. Iwamae graduated from Kyoto University in 1992, finished his Ph.D. in 1997. He has been Lecturer of Kyoto University from 1999. He has been working on PPS experiments of various plasmas.

Zusammenfassung

You'll learn all the underlying science and how to perform all the latest analytical techniques that plasma polarization spectroscopy (PPS) offers with this new book. The authors report on recent results of laboratory experiments, keeping you current with all the latest developments and applications in the field. There is also a timely discussion centered on instrumentation that is crucial to your ability to perform successful PPS experiments.

Inhalt
Zeeman and Stark Effects.- Plasma Spectroscopy.- Population-Alignment Collisional-Radiative Model.- Definition of Cross Sections for the Creation, Destruction, and Transfer of Atomic Multipole Moments by Electron Scattering: Quantum Mechanical Treatment.- Collision Processes.- Radiation Reabsorption.- Experiments: Ionizing Plasma.- Experiments: Recombining Plasma.- Various Plasmas.- Polarized Atomic Radiative Emission in the Presence of Electric and Magnetic Fields.- Astrophysical Plasmas.- Electromagnetic Waves.- Instrumentation I.- Instrumentation II.