Effect of size and material of liquid spherical particles on laser-induced breakdown
- 24 November 1986
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 49 (21) , 1475-1477
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.97307
Abstract
We have used the Nd:YAG laser output at λ=0.532 μm to investigate the effect of the size and the material of liquid spherical aerosols on the breakdown threshold. The breakdown threshold intensity decreases with increasing droplet size; however, no simple general dependence on the refractive index has been found.Keywords
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