Vol 44, No 10 (2017)

The study of the previously proposed method for improving the parameters of the coherent population trapping resonance on the ⁸⁷Rb D₁ line using two counterpropagating bichromatic fields with orthogonal circular polarizations is continued. The method consists in elimination of trap states existing in the conventional σ⁺ measurement scheme and limiting the resonance amplitude. The resonance parameters are studied in a wide range of pump radiation intensities and in various configurations implementing the σ⁺-σ⁻ scheme.

The discharge development inmethane- and hydrogen-oxygenmixtures under repeated high-voltage nanosecond pulses is studied. It is shown that the fraction of the energy deposited in the methane-oxygen-mixture discharge and the maximum discharge current pass through a minimum with increasing number of pulses, and the plasma decay rate, on the contrary, reaches a maximum. The observed features are explained by partial fuel oxidation with the result that intermediate components are accumulated in the combustiblemixture, which result in rapid electron loss and decay plasma enhancement.

Linear equations and dispersion relations describing the condensation mode in weakly ionized plasma with heat release, being in an external magnetic field, are derived. The conditions of the instability onset of the condensation mode of the ion component are found.

An equation describing ion oscillations with respect to solvent molecules is derived as a result of the consideration of the interaction of an external electric field with free and bound charges in the volume of a salt solution in a polar dielectric liquid. An analysis of the equation shows that the ion motion represents a drift toward one of the electrodes forming the field in the electroinsulated solution volume if amplitudes and durations of sinusoidal field half-periods are different.