Author(s)

Seyed Hassan, Ata Koohian

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Relative metastable level population of metal plasma having low-lying metastable states departs from equi-librium value. It needs to be experimentally investigated. This paper reports the use of hollow cathode lamp based Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) spectroscopy technique to measure Relative metastable level popu-lation of metal in a plasma produced by a hollow cathode lamp. The relative population of ground state and 533 cm-1 levels of Gd atoms in hollow cathode lamp is measured with LIF method.

Gadolinium, Fluorescence, Population

S. Hassan and A. Koohian, "Measurement of Relative Metastable Level Population of Gd Atoms in Hollow Cathode Lamp with LIF Method," Journal of Modern Physics, Vol. 1 No. 1, 2010, pp. 83-85. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2010.11011.