C. Parigger et al., SPECTROSCOPIC TEMPERATURE-MEASUREMENTS IN A DECAYING LASER-INDUCED PLASMA USING THE C-2 SWAN SYSTEM, Journal of quantitative spectroscopy & radiative transfer, 52(6), 1994, pp. 707-711
Spontaneous emission spectra of C-2 Swan bands were recorded well afte
r i.r. 1064 nm Nd:YAG laser-induced optical breakdown of carbon monoxi
de. Temperatures in excess of 6000 K were determined using fits to syn
thetic diatomic molecular spectra.