Absorption Imaging and Spectroscopy of Ultracold Neutral Plasmas

Details Absorption Imaging and Spectroscopy of Ultracold Neutral Plasmas Absorption Imaging and Spectroscopy of Ultracold Neutral Plasmas

2004-07-27

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0407138v1

Physics

Atomic Physics

14 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-4075/38/2/026

Absorption imaging and spectroscopy can probe the dynamics of an ultracold neutral plasma during the first few microseconds after its creation. Quantitative analysis of the data, however, is complicated by the inhomogeneous density distribution, expansion of the plasma, and possible lack of global thermal equilibrium for the ions. In this article we describe methods for addressing these issues. Using simple assumptions about the underlying temperature distribution and ion motion, the Doppler-broadened absorption spectrum obtained from plasma images can be related to the average temperature in the plasma.

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