The dependencies of some characteristic quantities of the profiles, whether the total width at half height (FWHM) or the depth of the central dip (DIP) for the case of very well known lines, both theoretically and experimentally, may allow us to know the orders of magnitude of the perturbers' density, at least, or the temperature of the plasma. However, comparing experimental and theoretical profiles can give very valuable information about questions such as the thermodynamical equilibrium of the different species constituting the plasma.
In this paper we give the autocorrelation functions of the
emitters' electric dipolar moment, which then allows us to obtain
the Lyman
emission profiles, two-photon absorption
profiles for the 1S
2S transition and the profiles that
would be obtained using 1S
2S two-photon polarization
spectroscopy (Danzmann et al. 1986; Seidel 1986;
Grützmacher & Seidel 1989; Steiger 1993; Steiger & Grützmacher 1993; Seidel et al. 1995).
These profiles can be obtained from the autocorrelation
functions here. The advantage of giving the autocorrelation
functions of the dipolar moment instead of the Stark
profiles directly is that the first ones make it easy to
operate and to consider other additional broadening mechanisms.
We give
the pure Stark dipolar emission and two-photon polarization
profiles also obtained directly from the given
autocorrelation functions.
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