POPULATION INVERSION IN RECOMBINING WEAKLY IONIZED HYDROGEN PLASMA

Furukane,U., Yamamoto,T.: 1980, Jpn.J.Appl.Phys. 19, L285.

A new calculation method is presented, which is suitable for investigating a population inversion between the energy levels of weakly ionized hydrogen plasma in which atom-atom collision processes have been considered. As an example, the plasma conditions required for inversion between energy levels of the principle quantum number 4 and 5 of hydrogen atom are calculated by this method. In contrast to the recombining hydrogen plasma with moderate temperature (kTe greater than 1 eV), it is shown that population inversion is possible in a larger range above the lower bound of the effective recombination rate of the plasma.


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