Plasma formation in water by picosecond and nanosecond Nd:YAG laser pulses - Part II: Transmission, scattering, and reflection

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 861-871

  Nahen, Kester ^a   Vogel, Alfred ^a  

^a MEDICAL LASER CENTER LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; LASER SURGERY; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM OPTICS; WATER;

FRACTIONAL ENERGY DEPOSITION; MOVING BREAKDOWN DISTRIBUTED SHIELDING MODEL; PLASMA SHIELDING; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENT;

LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS;

EID: 0030348538     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.577308     Document Type: Article

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