Plasma formation in water by picosecond and nanosecond Nd:YAG laser pulses - Part I: Optical breakdown at threshold and superthreshold irradiance

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 847-859

  Vogel, Alfred ^a   Nahen, Kester ^a   Theisen, Dirk ^a   Noack, Joachim ^a  

^a MEDICAL LASER CENTER LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; IONIZATION; IRRADIATION; LASER SURGERY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; WATER;

AVALANCHE IONIZATION; MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION; OPTICAL BREAKDOWN; PLASMA GROWTH; SUPERTHRESHOLD IRRADIANCE;

LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS;

EID: 0030368136     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.577307     Document Type: Article

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