THE PROPAGATION OF A LASER PULSE THROUGH AN OPTICALLY THICK HYDROGEN PLASMA-AN EXAMINATION OF THE COLLISIONAL RADIATIVE MODELS OF THE ATOMIC HYDROGEN SYSTEM

The Collisional-Radiative Models(CRM) of hydrogen are used in the experiments of a resonant H-α laser pulse through an optically deep hydrogen plasma. Several causes for the disagreement between the theoretical predictions and experimental results are discussed.