Spatial and temporal dependence of interspark interactions in femtosecond-nanosecond dual-pulse laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 27, 2004, Pages 5243-5250

  Scaffidi, Jon ^a   Pearman, William ^b   Lawrence, Marion ^a   Carter, J Chance ^c   Colston Jr , Bill W ^c   Angel, S Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; FIBER OPTICS; LASER ABLATION; LASER FUSION; SHOCK WAVES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

ATOMIC EMISSIONS; FEMTOSECOND AIR SPARKS; LASER-INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY (LIBS); NANOSECOND PULSE;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 4944263256     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005243     Document Type: Article

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