Pressure and impulse production by laser/material interaction in a vacuum
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to assemble and compare as much of the published information as possible on pressure and impulse generation by pulsed laser irradiation of surfaces in a vacuum. The relevant physics are examined, the existing data are collated and presented on the same basis and simple theories are compared with the existing data.
- Publication:
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AIAA, 19th Thermophysics Conference
- Pub Date:
- June 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984thph.confR....R
- Keywords:
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- Laser Plasmas;
- Laser Target Interactions;
- Vacuum Effects;
- Aluminum;
- Carbon;
- Graphite;
- Scaling Laws;
- Steady State;
- Lasers and Masers