On the scaling law of plasma temperature versus laser flux
- 1 July 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 35 (1) , 11-13
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.90912
Abstract
The experiments were conducted with a 50‐MW 60‐ns ruby laser to study the variation of plasma temperature with laser flux for a carbon and polyethylene plasma in a purely collisional regime. The plasma temperature showed a φ2/9 dependence on laser flux in the intensity regime 2×1010 to 5×1011 W/cm2. Results are discussed with reference to the scaling laws obtained by different workers in different flux regimes on the basis of collisional and noncollisional absorption.Keywords
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