Instrumentation for plasma diagnostics

JUL 01, 1966

Efforts to measure plasma properties have been responsible for many instrumentation developments. Diagnostic methods now include a host of techniques used in other disciplines: interactions with electromagnetic waves, particle beams, probes, lasers and spectroscopy.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3048396

Harold P. Eubank

THE LAST DECADE has brought about enormous growth in efforts toward understanding plasmas. This growth has come primarily from two sources: the controlled‐thermonuclear‐research program and the space program, both of which have lent support to many research fields with overlapping interests, such as applied optics, low‐energy‐beam cross‐section measurements and electromagnetic‐wave propagation in ionized media.

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Harold P. Eubank. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.