Dual-pulse laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy in bulk aqueous solution with an orthogonal beam geometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 30, 2003, Pages 6085-6093

  Pearman, William ^a   Scaffidi, Jon ^a   Angel, S Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LASER PULSES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

INTERPULSE TIMINGS;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 0242334686     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.006085     Document Type: Article

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