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P: Plasmaphysik

P 5: Plasmadiagnostik

P 5.1: Fachvortrag

Tuesday, March 19, 2002, 12:00–12:30, HZO 60

Laser-Aided Plasma Diagnostics: A personal account of how it was conceived and has been developed, and of its future — •K. Muraoka — Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Kasuga Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan

Invention of the laser in 1960 has revolutionarily changed diagnostic techniques of plasmas in the last 41 years, introducing such techniques as laser interferometry, laser Thomson scattering and laser-induced fluorescence. This talk is a speaker’s very personal account of how the concept of what we call No-dqlaser-aided plasma diagnostics (LAPD)No-dq was conceived and has been developed. In the course of this work during the last 26 years, he has been benefitted much by many encounters with German plasma physicists. In addition, the speaker hopes to envision how it will evolve from here to the future.