Multi-chord fiber-coupled interferometer with a long coherence length laser

Details Multi-chord fiber-coupled interferometer with a long coherence length laser Multi-chord fiber-coupled interferometer with a long coherence length laser

2011-11-04

arxiv.org/abs/1111.1221v3

Review of Scientific Instruments 83, 033506 (2012)

Physics

Plasma Physics

submitted to Rev. Sci. Instrum. (2011)

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This paper describes a 561 nm laser heterodyne interferometer that provides time-resolved measurements of line-integrated plasma electron density within the range of 10^15-10^18 cm^(-2). Such plasmas are produced by railguns on the Plasma Liner Experiment (PLX), which aims to produce \mu s-, cm-, and Mbar-scale plasmas through the merging of thirty plasma jets in a spherically convergent geometry. A long coherence length, 320 mW laser allows for a strong, sub-fringe phase-shift signal without the need for closely-matched probe and reference path lengths. Thus only one reference path is required for all eight probe paths, and an individual probe chord can be altered without altering the reference or other probe path lengths. Fiber-optic decoupling of the probe chord optics on the vacuum chamber from the rest of the system allows the probe paths to be easily altered to focus on different spatial regions of the plasma. We demonstrate that sub-fringe resolution capability allows the interferometer to operate down to line-integrated densities of order 10^15 cm^(-2).

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