Spectroscopic of atmospheric pressure air jet plasma in transverses arc   discharge
  Spectroscopic characterization of a specific case of the atmospheric pressure air jet plasma in the transverse cw dc arc discharge of high voltage was done. Within the spectrum of wavelengths from 200 to 1100 nm all remarkable emissions were monitored, and all excited atomic lines of N, O, H and molecular bands of NO, N2, O2, OH, CO, CN were identified. Using relative intensities of analytical CuI lines 510.5, 515.3, 521.8 nm (the product of electrode emission) and N2 2+ -system band at 337.1 nm (the dominating component of plasma-forming gas), the temperature of electronic excitation of free atoms, Texc, and the temperatures of excitation of vibrational and rotational states of molecules, TV and TR, were determined. It was found that there is no local LTE in this arc discharge air plasma during its space/time evolution, and effects of strong non-izothermality have a place in this case. 
Valeriy Chernyak, Vadym Naumov, Vitaliy Yukhimenko