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Chin. Phys. B, 2025, Vol. 34(9): 094701    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ade24a
ELECTROMAGNETISM, OPTICS, ACOUSTICS, HEAT TRANSFER, CLASSICAL MECHANICS, AND FLUID DYNAMICS Prev   Next  

Time-resolved molecular non-equilibrium spectra in nanosecond laser induced air plasma

Xuteng Zhang(张续腾)1,2, Chaobo Yang(杨超博)1,2,†, Xun Yuan(袁勋)1,2, Minghong Han(韩明宏)1,2, Zhen Cao(曹振)1,2,‡, Jiangbo Peng(彭江波)1,2, and Xin Yu(于欣)1,2
1 National Key Laboratory of Laser Spatial Information, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China;
2 Institute of Opt-electronics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Abstract  We performed a quantitative analysis of time-resolved laser-induced breakdown air plasma spectra to obtain the evolution of temperatures and species relative fractions. The air plasma was generated by focusing a 100 mJ Nd:YAG laser pulse, and the time-resolved spectra were recorded by an intensified charge-coupled device camera with incremental delay. The attention was mainly focused on the emission spectra of the first negative system of nitrogen ($\rm N_2^+$, $\rm{B}^2\Sigma_{\rm u}^{-}$-$\rm{X}^2\Sigma_{\rm g}^+$) and the violet system of carbon nitride (CN, $\rm{B}^2\Sigma^{+}$-$\rm{X}^2\Sigma^+$) located at 383-396 nm. A custom-built model was developed to perform the simulation and fitting of the $\rm N_2^+$ and the $\rm CN$ spectra from the air plasma. The model was verified by comparing to a published model with a 0.9860 Spearman correlation coefficient. With this model, the time-resolved non-equilibrium temperatures and relative fractions of $\rm N_2^+$ and $\rm CN$ were obtained with a fitting correlation coefficient higher than 0.9108.
Keywords:  non-equilibrium      time-resolved      diatomic molecule      optical emission spectroscopy  
Received:  05 March 2025      Revised:  03 June 2025      Accepted manuscript online:  09 June 2025
PACS:  47.70.Nd (Nonequilibrium gas dynamics)  
  52.25.Tx (Emission, absorption, and scattering of particles)  
  33.20.-t (Molecular spectra)  
  02.70.Hm (Spectral methods)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 62305087).
Corresponding Authors:  Chaobo Yang, Zhen Cao     E-mail:  yangchaobo@hit.edu.cn;caozhen1995@hit.edu.cn

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Xuteng Zhang(张续腾), Chaobo Yang(杨超博), Xun Yuan(袁勋), Minghong Han(韩明宏), Zhen Cao(曹振), Jiangbo Peng(彭江波), and Xin Yu(于欣) Time-resolved molecular non-equilibrium spectra in nanosecond laser induced air plasma 2025 Chin. Phys. B 34 094701

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