Threshold laser power density for regime transition of a laser absorption wave in a reduced-density air atmosphere

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Mori, Koichi ^a   Komurasaki, Kimiya ^b   Arakawa, Yoshihiro ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; LASER PULSES; PLASMAS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AIR DENSITY; LASER ABSORPTION; SHADOWGRAPH VISUALIZATION; THRESHOLD LASER POWER DENSITY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 33645517874     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2183812     Document Type: Article

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