Diagnostics of High-Temperature,High-Density Plasma by Radiation Analysis

This article will be restricted to the diagnostics of laboratory plasmas having an average particle energy of higher than 30 eV per particle and a density of greater than 10¹⁹ particles per cm³. Common features of such plasmas related to applied spectroscopy are their complete ionization, the high excitation and ionization levels the particles, the large emission coefficients for continuum radiation over a wide spectral range from the X-ray region up to the infrared, their small size, high temperature and density gradients to the environment, and their transient nature.