Fluorescence Studies on Ultracold Plasmas

Fluorescence studies of ultracold plasmas form a nice complement to recently-demonstrated ion absorption measurements. They offer some advantages in terms of both the signal-to-noise ratio, the ultimate sensitivity, and the fast time-scale of the response. In this talk I will present new fluorescence studies of ultracold plasmas and discuss their application to our understanding of the physics of strongly- coupled Coulomb systems.