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N-atom Production at High Electric Fields: E-FISH and TALIF Experiments for Understanding Fast Ionization Wave Kinetics

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This work forms part of a larger effort to develop a suite of diagnostics for making measurements in non-equilibrium, nanosecond pulse discharges, so as to facilitate an improved understanding of the plasma kinetics. Electric field induced second harmonic (E-FISH) generation, is used to probe the electric field in a fast ionization wave, nanosecond pulse discharge in pure N2 at a pressure of 20 mbar. The field evolution during the fast ionization wave development is clearly captured in the form of three distinct phases. An initial field overshoot ahead of the front to about 10.5 kV/cm (or about 2 kTd), followed by a field drop as the wave traverses the measurement location, and finally a subsequent rise as a quasi-steady state regime is established. TALIF measurements of N-atom density are also performed with a view to understanding the impact of the reduced electric field on the consequent atomic species production. These measurements are limited to the post-discharge phase, mainly due to the poor signal to raise ratio associated with the lower atomic densities and strong fluorescence-overlapping plasma emission. A relatively low peak N-atom density of about 5.5 x 10 12 cm-3 is obtained, in line with the low specific deposited energy of this discharge (0.01 eV/molecule). Finally, attempts to model this plasma show that the results of simulations are strongly influenced by the radial non-uniformity of the discharge.
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hal-03042116 , version 1 (05-12-2020)

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Tat Loon Chng, Inna S Orel, Igor V Adamovich, Nikolay A Popov, Svetlana Starikovskaia. N-atom Production at High Electric Fields: E-FISH and TALIF Experiments for Understanding Fast Ionization Wave Kinetics. Proc. of AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum Session: Diagnostics, Jan 2020, Orlando, United States. ⟨hal-03042116⟩
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