Optical diagnostics of laser-produced plasmas

SS Harilal, MC Phillips, DH Froula, KK Anoop… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - APS
Laser-produced plasmas (LPPs) engulf exotic and complex conditions ranging in
temperature, density, pressure, magnetic and electric fields, charge states, charged particle …

Laser ablation plasmas and spectroscopy for nuclear applications

EH Kwapis, J Borrero, KS Latty, HB Andrews… - Applied …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
The development of measurement methodologies to detect and monitor nuclear-relevant
materials remains a consistent and significant interest across the nuclear energy …

Optical spectroscopy and modeling of uranium gas-phase oxidation: Progress and perspectives

EJ Kautz, EN Weerakkody, MS Finko, D Curreli… - … Acta Part B: Atomic …, 2021 - Elsevier
Studies related to U gas-phase oxidation through plasma-and thermo-chemistry are
important for many fields, including environmental monitoring, forensic analysis, debris …

Laser ablation spectrometry for studies of uranium plasmas, reactor monitoring, and spent fuel safety

M Burger, LA Finney, L Garrett, SS Harilal… - … Acta Part B: Atomic …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nuclear security is one of the defining challenges of our time. Nuclear threats range from
deliberate dispersal of radioactive material to contaminate the vital infrastructure to diversion …

Spectroscopic signatures and oxidation characteristics of nanosecond laser-induced cerium plasmas

EH Kwapis, E Villa-Aleman, KC Hartig - Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Improving technologies related to the wide area environmental sampling of nuclear
materials supports the nuclear nonproliferation mission of preventing the proliferation of …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-species temperature and number density analysis of a laser-produced plasma using dual-comb spectroscopy

RRD Weeks, Y Zhang, SS Harilal, MC Phillips… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Dual-comb spectroscopy (DCS) represents a novel method of using absorption
spectroscopy as a diagnostic tool for multispecies analysis of excitation temperatures and …

Time-resolved absorption spectroscopic characterization of ultrafast laser-produced plasmas under varying background pressures

SS Harilal, EJ Kautz, MC Phillips - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
Time-resolved tunable laser absorption spectroscopy is used to characterize the physical
properties of ultrafast laser-produced plasmas. The plasmas were produced from an Inconel …

Laser-ablation absorption spectroscopy: Reviewing an uncommon hyphenation

J Merten - Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy, 2022 - Elsevier
Absorption spectroscopy hyphenations of the laser-induced plasma have been attempted by
a handful of groups since the early 1990s. Despite the measurement's relatively long history …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal evolution of emission and absorption signatures in a laser-produced plasma

SS Harilal, EJ Kautz, MC Phillips - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We report spatiotemporal evolution of emission and absorption signatures of Al species in a
nanosecond (ns) laser-produced plasma (LPP). The plasmas were generated from an …

Early-and late-time dynamics of laser-produced plasmas by combining emission and absorption spectroscopy

NL LaHaye, SS Harilal, MC Phillips - Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic …, 2021 - Elsevier
Optical emission spectroscopy and laser absorption spectroscopy are two highly
complementary techniques for diagnosing plasmas, specifically determining important …