CO2 laser-driven absorption waves in underdense hydrogen
- 1 February 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 45 (2) , 623-625
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1663294
Abstract
A 600‐MW CO2 laser oscillator has been used to induce breakdown in hydrogen with filling pressures in the range 10–20 Torr. The breakdown region is observed to undergo a transition from an optically thin symmetric expansion at laser fluxes in excess of ∼ 108 W/cm2 to an optically thick undirectional expansion at laser intensities below this.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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