The temporal evolution of a plasma formed by the interaction of a Nd-YAG 10 ns laser
pulse with the surface of aqueous solutions of CaCl2, has been observed by analyzing the
variation of the emission spectra of ions and neutral atoms in the time interval after the
laser pulse, 500 ns < t < 5000 ns. The intensity measurements of the lines of CaII at
3158 Å, 3179 Å, 3706 Å, 3736 Å, 3933 Å, 3968 Å were used to obtain the electronic
temperature Te using a Saha-Boltzmann analysis. The broadening of the resonance line
of CaI at 4227 Å was used to deduce the electronic density Ne, with the aid of the semiclassical
theory of Stark broadening. A value of Te ≈ 28000 K decreasing slightly to
21000 K, and an exponential decay for Ne were found, with Ne ≈ 1:25 × 1018 cm-3 at 500 ns and τe=(1200±50) ns.