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Published Online: 11 February 2020
Accepted: January 2020

Experimental investigation of ionization front propagating in a 28 GHz gyrotron beam: Observation of plasma structure and spectroscopic measurement of gas temperature

Journal of Applied Physics 127, 063301 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5144157
Kuniyoshi Tabata1,a), Yuki Harada1, Yusuke Nakamura2, Kimiya Komurasaki1, Hiroyuki Koizumi3, Tsuyoshi Kariya4, and Ryutaro Minami4
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ABSTRACT
Atmospheric millimeter-wave discharge was investigated experimentally using a 28 GHz gyrotron. The propagation velocity of an ionization front, plasma structure, and vibrational and rotational temperatures of nitrogen molecules were measured at a beam intensity lower than 1.0 GW/m2, which is below the breakdown threshold. Results show that the propagation velocity of an ionization front increased monotonically with beam intensity and decreased with ambient pressure. In addition, four typical plasma structures having different space occupancies were observed. Furthermore, at any beam intensity below 0.5 GW/m2, the vibrational temperature was found to be saturated at about 6000 K. The corresponding electron number density is almost equal to the cut-off density. Finally, it was suggested that the propagation velocity depends on the plasma space occupancy.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was supported by the JSPS KAKENHI under Grant No. JP15H05770.

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