Spectral Investigation of Light Reflected from a Laser-Produced Deuterium Plasma

1 January 1972

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters

Vol. 20 (1) , 3-4
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1653966

Abstract

Plasma is created from solid deuterium targets by neodymium laser irradiation. The reflected laser light is shifted by 2.5 Å towards longer wavelengths. This is interpreted as a Doppler shift of the laser light reflected at a layer moving in the direction of the incident radiation with a velocity of 3.5×10⁶ cm sec⁻¹.

Keywords

LASERS
BEAMS
DOPPLER EFFECT
PLASMA
SOLIDS
NEODYMIUM
SCATTERING
DEUTERIUM

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Some properties of the plasmas produced by irradiating light solids by laser pulses
Plasma Physics, 1968
7A5 - Evaporation and heating of a substance due to laser radiation
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1966