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Plasma and Fusion Research

Volume 5, S2007 (2010)

Regular Articles

Emission of Visible Light by Hot Dense Metals
Richard M. MORE1,2), Motoshi GOTO3), Frank GRAZIANI2), Pavel NI1) and Hitoki YONEDA4)
1)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
2)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
3)
National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Gifu 509-5292, Japan
4)
University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan
(Received 9 December 2009 / Accepted 2 March 2010 / Published 10 December 2010)

Abstract

We consider the emission of visible light by hot metal surfaces having uniform and non-uniform temperature distributions and by small droplets of liquid metal. The calculations employ a nonlocal transport theory for light emission, using the Kubo formula to relate microscopic current fluctuations to the dielectric function of the material. We describe a related algorithm for calculating radiation emission in particle simulation of hot fusion plasmas.

Keywords

incandescent emission of light, polarized emission, pyrometry, hot metal, warm dense matter

DOI: 10.1585/pfr.5.S2007

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This paper may be cited as follows:

Richard M. MORE, Motoshi GOTO, Frank GRAZIANI, Pavel NI and Hitoki YONEDA, Plasma Fusion Res. 5, S2007 (2010).