Diagnostic techniques for CO2 laser generated plasmas

The production of plasmas using a moderately high power CO2 TEA laser and the diagnostic techniques used for their analysis, are described under the headings; x-ray and ion emission studies, x-ray pinhole camera studies, classical and nonlinear absorption theory, plasma reflectivity and spectral observations, interferometric studies, theory of plasma scattering of electromagnetic radiation, and light scattering experiment and results. (U.K.)