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| Title: | Experimentally determined plasma parameters in a 30 cm ion engine |
| Authors: | Sengupta, Anita
Goebel, Dan
Fitzgerald, Dennis
Owens, Al
Tynan, George
Dorner, Russ |
| Keywords: | ion engines
optical fiber plasma
near grid plasma |
| Issue Date: | 11-Jul-2004 |
| Publisher: | Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2004. |
| Citation: | 40th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, July 11-14, 2004. |
| Abstract: | Single planar Langmuir probes and fiber optic probes are used to concurrently measure the plasma properties and neutral density variation in a 30cm diameter ion engine discharge chamber, from the immediate vicinity of the keeper to the near grid plasma region. The fiber optic probe consists of a collimated optical fiber recessed into a double bore ceramic tube fitted with a stainless steel light-limiting window. The optical fiber probe is used to measure the emission intensity of excited neutral xenon for a small volume of plasma, at various radial and axial locations. The single Langmuir probes, are used to generate current-voltage characteristics at a total of 140 spatial locations inside the discharge &amber. Assuming a maxwellian distribution for the electron population, the Langmuir probe traces provide spatially resolved measurements of plasma potential, electron temperature, and plasma density. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2014/40016 |
| Appears in Collections: | JPL TRS 1992+
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