Flame focussing of laser beams and refractive fringe formation
Abstract
Two flat oxy-acetylene flames focus a pulsed ruby laser which burns a hole in a polythene target. The formation of two types of fringes, fine and coarse is observed and explained.
- Publication:
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Optics Communications
- Pub Date:
- January 1985
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0030-4018(86)90331-7
- Bibcode:
- 1985OptCo..52..371M
- Keywords:
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- Diffraction Patterns;
- Flames;
- Focusing;
- High Power Lasers;
- Laser Beams;
- Oxyacetylene;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Refracted Waves;
- Refractivity;
- Ruby Lasers;
- Shadowgraph Photography;
- Lasers and Masers