Obtaining the real profile of self-absorbed copper spectral line by regularization method

Spectroscopic methods, as non-invasive, offer many possibilities to diagnose plasmas in the laboratory and in the space. Spectral line shapes carry information about plasma characteristics and deriving these parameters of line shapes with sufficient accuracy is the primary task in this work. The intrinsic problem in these methods is, the derivation of plasma characteristics from the measured spectrum: a characteristic of plasma plays a role of “cause”, and the observed data-“effect”. Therefore, to obtain the characteristic from the experimental data is an inverse and ill posed problem from the point of mathematical physics. The spectroscopic studies of the low voltage DC arc, used for excitation of free-burning cuprum-vapor plasmas at atmospheric pressure, were conducted. The true profile of Cu I 324.754 nm, self-absorbed spectral line, was obtained by deconvolution from experimental results by Tikhonov regularization method. Accuracy, reproducibility and limitation of the method were analyzed. Satisfacto...