A comparative study of highly-ionized Al plasma based on dual pulse laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

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• 作者：A. A. I. Khalil ; W. O. Younis ; M. A. Gandol
• 关键词：DP ; LIBS ; Double ; ionized Al spectral lines ; Electron impact excitation coefficient ; De ; excitation rate coefficients for Al ions
• 刊名：Indian Journal of Physics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：91
• 期：3
• 页码：327-336
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• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Physics, general; Astrophysics and Astroparticles;
• 出版者：Springer India
• ISSN：0974-9845
• 卷排序：91

文摘

We built a collinear dual-pulse laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (DP-LIBS) system to study the aluminum (Al) plasma emission by installing a pair of Nd: YAG lasers operating at 266 and 1064 nm. The spectral intensities of selected aluminum doubly-ionized lines were employed to evaluate the optical emission spectra. The influences of the energy ratio of two pulsed lasers on the LIBS intensity for different Al doubly-ionized spectral lines were investigated. The de-excitation rate parameters of the excited ion and the electron impact excitation were computed using the analytical formulas proposed by Smeets and Vriens. The transition probabilities and energy states were computed using Hibbert’s configuration interaction, computer package (CIV3). By solving the coupled rate equations including 1s22s22p6ns (2S), 1s22s22p6np (2P), 1s22s22p6nd (2D) (n = 3–5) and 1s22s22p6nf (2F) (n = 4, 5) states, the level population densities were computed. We also proposed a theoretical population model in order to investigate the effectiveness of the various processes that might affect the population of the upper levels in Al plasma by using the rate coefficients. In addition, the population densities for the 19 upper levels were also computed. Good compatibility between the experimental and the theoretical model data had been observed. Our results might be significant as reference data for the optimization of the DP-LIBS spectrometry and diagnostics of laser produced plasmas.