DYNAMIC AND SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ABLATION PULSED PLASMA SOURCE AT ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
V. B. Avramenko UDC 537.52 This paper presents the results of optical, spectroscopic, and electrophysical studies of plasma obtained with the aid of a combined two-stage, electric-discharge system at atmospheric pressure. A comparative study of such plasma sources with the use of pure dielectric insertions and insertions with metal disposition on their working surface has been made. The considered variants of pulsed sources operating in the air permit obtaining under these conditions relatively dense low-temperature (6000-9000 K) plasma streams of a definite composition. Institute of Molecular and Atomic Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 70 Nezavisimost' Ave., Minsk, 220072, Belarus. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 79, No. 4, pp. 17-22, July-August, 2006. Original article submitted July 19, 2005.