Properties of an air plasma generated by ultraviolet nanosecond laser pulses

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  El Rabii, Hazem ^a   Victorov, Sergey B ^a   Yalin, Azer P ^b  

^a UPR 9028 du CNRS   (France)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LASERS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); NEODYMIUM LASERS; OXYGEN; PLASMAS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AIR PLASMAS; ATOMIC OXYGENS; BOLTZMANN; ELECTRON NUMBER DENSITIES; H ALPHAS; LASER-INDUCED SPARKS; LOCAL THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUMS; NANOSECOND LASER PULSE; ND: YAG; NEW APPROACHES; PLASMA ENVIRONMENTS; PLASMA FORMATIONS; PULSE WIDTHS; Q-SWITCHED; SPECTRAL MEASUREMENTS; STARK BROADENING; TIME DEPENDENTS; TIME INTERVALS; TIME-RESOLVED; WAVE THEORIES;

PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS;

EID: 63649097327     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/42/7/075203     Document Type: Article

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