AUTHOR=Dvořák Pavel , Mrkvičková Martina , Kratzer Jan TITLE=LIF measurement in a partially saturated and partially absorbed regime JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2024 YEAR=2024 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2024.1408078 DOI=10.3389/fphy.2024.1408078 ISSN=2296-424X ABSTRACT=The problematics of laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) measurements in a partially saturated regime with spatially dependent laser intensity in the sample (caused by absorption) is analysed. The obtained equations are tested by means of LIF of free tellurium atoms in a plasma of an atmospheric-pressure dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) by comparison of fluorescence and absorption measurements. The results show a high reliability of the LIF measurements.