ABSTRACT
Power interruption Power interruption can be useful in unravelling the dependence of various balances on plasma parameters. A variation in the density of a particular radiating state that results from of a power interruption, which is communicated by a change in the observed spectrum, can assist in exposing the dominant production and destruction channels of that state. In figure 2 the time characteristic of the signal decay as found from a time dependent model of the lamp (with Qoh„,=0) and from experiment is shown as a function of wavelength for the entire useful spectral range of the discharge. We see that that the model not only agrees with the values of the time characteristic but also its variation as a function of wavelength. We have found here that the presence of S3 is critical for this agreement.
