Gabriela Sandolache1, Claude Fleurier2, Jean-Marc Bauchire2, Francois Gentils2, Vasile Zoita1
1National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, P.O. Box MG 36, Magurele, R-76911 Bucharest, Romania,
2GREMI Laboratory, University of Orleans, B.P. 6744, Orleans, France
A pulsed capillary discharge has been the subject of various experimental and theoretical studies. A jet of cooperhydrogen plasma with a cylindrical symmetry has been developed as a light source for spectroscopic measurements. The electron density of the plasma was obtained by sing the Hb spectral line of the hydrogen component plasma. The electron temperature was determined by means of the Boltzmann method applied to the copper profiles emitted by the plasma jet. The copper and hydrogen lines were broadened principally by the Stark effect. The electron density of the plasma was found to be about 2´1017 cm-3 and the electron temperature about 20000K.