Air plasma control and guiding using laser excitation of molecular metastable states Conference Paper

abstract

• The methods of suppressing attachment and controlling instabilities in atmospheric-density air plasmas with high electron densities, based on the excitation of metastable molecular states, are discussed. Enhanced population of metastable states may stimulate ionization in both electron-molecule and molecule-molecule collisions, and accelerate electron detachment from negative ions. Metastable states could also define the path of arc formation, allowing external control of arc location and timing. Specifically, Raman excitation of the first vibrational level of oxygen molecule was done using a high power, two-color laser.

name of conference

• 25th Anniversary, IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts. 1998 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (Cat. No.98CH36221)

authors

• Miles, Richard

published proceedings

• 2013 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS)

altmetric score

• 0.5

author list (cited authors)

• Macheret, S. O., Miles, R. B., & Waichman, K.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• Macheret, SO||Miles, RB||Waichman, K

publication date

• January 1998

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/plasma.1998.677778

start page

• 239

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/plasma.1998.677778