Vaporization front in the interaction of high-energy laser with aerosols: a solitary wave
Abstract
If a high-energy laser beam were to propagate through highly absorbent aerosols, the aerosols might be subject to extinction by evaporation. This could occur, for instance, if a high-energy CO2 laser beam were to propagate through a medium containing a mist of water droplets. The incident energy would evaporate the droplets, thus increasing the transmission with time. In this paper, solitary waves are obtained as the asymptotic solution to the coupled nonlinear equations describing such an interaction.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- June 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1364/AO.21.001883
- Bibcode:
- 1982ApOpt..21.1883L
- Keywords:
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- Aerosols;
- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- High Power Lasers;
- Laser Heating;
- Solitary Waves;
- Vaporizing;
- Asymptotic Methods;
- Coupled Modes;
- Drops (Liquids);
- Light Scattering;
- Nonlinear Equations;
- Photoabsorption;
- Water;
- Lasers and Masers;
- AEROSOLS;
- ABSORPTION;
- ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS