URL study guide
https://tue.osiris-student.nl/onderwijscatalogus/extern/cursus?cursuscode=3MP180&collegejaar=2025&taal=enDescription
During the first lecture a general introduction into electromagnetic waves interacting with mater will be given. The emphasis will be on the interaction of EM waves, covering the (vacuum) ultraviolet ((V)UV) to the far infrared (FIR) and microwave (MW) range of the spectrum, with gaseous media. An overview of the different ways to measure radiation will be given. During the other lectures, diagnostic techniques, like optical emission spectroscopy, broadband and narrowband absorption spectroscopy, Thomson scattering, and some other laser-based diagnostics will be discussed. These lectures will be given by guest lecturers, who are experts in their field.The (guest) lecturers will introduce the working principles of the different techniques, and examples of applications of the techniques will be discussed in detail. In discussing the applications, we will focus on the advantages and disadvantages of the different techniques, and the parameters that can be determined from the experimental results.
In the final weeks, you will experiment yourself in a laser lab using Virtual Reality.
Objectives
After this course, students will be able to:- To know how to apply the basic working principles of the most common optical diagnostic techniques in plasma physics
- To determine which diagnostic to apply to measure parameters like density, temperature and velocity, and how to analyze its data.
- To explain the advantages and disadvantages of these optical diagnostic techniques, using the knowledge obtained about the working principles.
- To build a simple laser-based optical set-up on an optical table and to do a basic alignment.