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CONTRIBUTIONS TO PLASMA PHYSICS
Volume 48, Issue 5-7, Pages 453-460Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/ctpp.200810073
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plasma diagnostics; probes; emissive probes; laser-heating; instabilities
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Direct measurements of the plasma potential with high temporal and spatial resolution are only possible with special probes whose floating potential becomes equal to the plasma potential. One of these probes is the emissive probe which can be heated to electron emission. This leads to the effect that the plasma electron current towards the probe is compensated by an equal electron emission current flowing frorn the probe into the plasma which shifts the probe floating potential to the value of the plasma potential. While emissive probes are usually realized by heatable loops of wires of a refractory metal like tungsten or thoriated tungsten, we have developed various types of probes whose tip can be heated by an infrared laser beam. This offers several advantages like higher emission, longer lifetime and faster time response. Here we report on the latest development of a laser-heated emissive probe and on measurements with it in a magnetized helicon plasma. (c) 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag, GmbH & Co. KGaA. Weinheim.
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