Radiative Processes in Discharge Plasmas, 1986 Nato ASI Subseries B: Series, Vol. 149

Overview.- Tutorial Lecture — Radiative and Collisional Processes in Plasmas.- Plasma Radiation Fundamentals.- Radiative Processes in Discharge Plasmas: Questions and Issues.- Light Scattering.- Emission Spectroscopy.- Pulsed Optical Pumping in Low Pressure Mercury Discharges.- Transient Phenomena in High Pressure Discharges.- Molecular Spectral Intensities in LTE Plasmas.- Self-Reversed Emission Lines in Inhomogeneous Plasmas.- Radiation Transport in High Pressure Discharge Lamps.- Discharge Light Sources.- Discharge Light Sources.- Low-Pressure Mercury and Sodium Lamps.- High-Pressure Sodium (HPS) Arcs.- Metal Halide Sources.- Plasma Generation.- Laser-Produced Plasmas.- Plasmas Sustained by Surface Waves at Microwave and RF Frequencies: Experimental Investigation and Applications.- Plasmas Sustained by Surface Waves at Radio and Microwave Frequencies: Basic Processes and Modeling.- Recent Diagnostic Advances.- Gas Discharge Laser Diagnostics Update.- Laser (and Other) Diagnostics of RF Discharges.- Optogalvanic Effects in the Cathode Fall.- Rydberg States: Properties and Applications to Electrical Discharge Measurements.- Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy.- Appendix A: Poster Papers.- Appendix B: Organizing Committee, Lecturers, and Participants.