Shock waves in laser-induced plasmas

B Campanella, S Legnaioli, S Pagnotta, F Poggialini… - Atoms, 2019 - mdpi.com
The production of a plasma by a pulsed laser beam in solids, liquids or gas is often
associated with the generation of a strong shock wave, which can be studied and interpreted …

Review on laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy: methodology and technical developments

J Thomas, H Chandra Joshi - Applied Spectroscopy Reviews, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this review, we attempt to provide a brief account of laser-induced breakdown
spectroscopy (LIBS) methodology and technological developments. We also summarize …

The effect of excitation wavelength on dynamics of laser-produced tin plasma

SS Harilal, T Sizyuk, A Hassanein, D Campos… - Journal of Applied …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
We investigated the effect of the excitation wavelength on the density evolution of laser-
produced tin plasmas, both experimentally and numerically. For producing plasmas, Sn …

Experimental characterization of the stagnation layer between two obliquely merging supersonic plasma jets

EC Merritt, AL Moser, SC Hsu, J Loverich, M Gilmore - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
We present spatially resolved measurements characterizing the stagnation layer between
two obliquely merging supersonic plasma jets. Intrajet collisionality is very high, but the …

Experimental evidence for collisional shock formation via two obliquely merging supersonic plasma jets

EC Merritt, AL Moser, SC Hsu, CS Adams… - Physics of …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We report spatially resolved measurements of the oblique merging of two supersonic
laboratory plasma jets. The jets are formed and launched by pulsed-power-driven railguns …

Emission enhancement of femtosecond laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy using vortex beam

Q Wang, W Dang, Y Jiang, A Chen… - Journal of Physics B …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper used femtosecond Gaussian and vortex beams to ablate a Cu target and
generate Cu plasmas. A Gaussian beam pulse is shaped into a vortex beam by a vortex …

Interaction of two counterpropagating laser induced plasmas and shock waves in air

N Guthikonda, E Manikanta, L Chelikani… - Physics of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The interaction of two counterpropagating plasmas and shockwaves due to a 7 ns laser
induced breakdown (LIB) of ambient atmospheric air was studied using the 2D emission and …

Spectroscopic investigation of stagnation region in laterally colliding plasmas: Dependence of ablating target material and plasma plume separation

A Mondal, B Kumar, RK Singh, HC Joshi… - Physics of Plasmas, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The effect of the atomic mass of the ablating target on the formation and expansion of the
interaction region in laterally colliding plasmas has been studied. Fast imaging and optical …

Dynamics of laser ablated colliding plumes

SL Gupta, PK Pandey, RK Thareja - Physics of Plasmas, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We report the dynamics of single and two collinearly colliding laser ablated plumes of ZnO
studied using fast imaging and the spectroscopic measurements. Two dimensional imaging …

Digital nanosecond imaging architecture and analytical tracking technique of colliding laser-produced plasma

HM Al-Juboori, T McCormack - Optical and Quantum Electronics, 2022 - Springer
The high-power pulsed laser beams can use for matter ablation which is not only prevalent
in science fiction movies but discovered by several technological fields ranging from the …