ISSN:
1090-6525
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Abstract Results are presented from studies of a high-pressure electrodeless breakdown in air at the focus of a standing wave in a high-Q quasi-optical two-mirror resonator pumped by single microwave pulses. In the experiment, the breakdown occurred at the front of the pulse of the resonator field. The breakdown field substantially exceeded the critical level and, under fixed conditions, showed a scatter from pulse to pulse. It is shown that the experimentally found excess in the threshold breakdown field over the critical level is due to the fact that the resonator field increases as a discharge plasmoid forms during breakdown and that the appearance of an electron initiating breakdown in a gas is a random event.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/1.1318961
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