Theory and simulation on the threshold of water breakdown induced by focused ultrashort laser pulses

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 127-137

  Feng, Q ^a   Moloney, J V ^a   Newell, A C ^a   Wright, E M ^a   Cook, K ^a   Kennedy, P K ^b   Hammer, D X ^b   Rockwell, B A ^b   Thompson, C R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Armstrong Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOCUSING; IONIZATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PLASMAS; WATER;

ELECTRON PLASMA; LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN; LIGHT INTENSITY; SELF FOCUSING; THRESHOLD DEPENDENCE; ULTRASHORT LASER PULSES; WATER BREAKDOWN;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0031075616     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.552252     Document Type: Article

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