The invention discloses a plasma device with a double-hollow cathode and a double-hollow cathode and applications. The device comprises filaments, a hot cathode, an anode, a double-hollow cathode, a cold cathode, a vacuum chamber and a magnet, wherein the double-hollow cathode comprises an outer wall and a lining layer and is of a double-layer structure. Due to the double-layer hollow cathode structure, the lining layer is easy to disassemble and change, so that the lining layer can be observed and analyzed properly, and simultaneously, the demand that single or multiple types of metal plasma is/are generated by a sputtering cathode in an arc chamber. On one hand, according to the plasma device, a double-hollow cathode plasma sputtering mode controlled by a magnetic mirror field is adopted for generating high-density plasma with the single or multi-element metal and plasma flow with high efficiency, and the plasma device is used for the modification on the surface of irradiation material of the metal plasma and research on the high-purity high-flow metal ion beam; and on the other hand, the plasma device is combined with various surface analyzing technologies to observe and analyze the inner surface of the double-hollow cathode, and used for researching the mutual action between the plasma and a machine wall in magnetic confinement fusion.