2 papers
physics.atom-ph2004
Absorption Imaging and Spectroscopy of Ultracold Neutral Plasmas
T. C. Killian, Y. C. Chen, P. Gupta +6
Absorption imaging and spectroscopy can probe the dynamics of an ultracold neutral plasma during the first few microseconds after its creation. Quantitative analysis of the data, h…
physics.atom-ph2003
Using Absorption Imaging to Study Ion Dynamics in an Ultracold Neutral Plasma
C. E. Simien, Y. C. Chen, P. Gupta +5
We report optical absorption imaging of ultracold neutral plasmas.Images are used to measure the ion absorption spectrum, which is Doppler-broadened. Through the spectral width, we…