Laser pulses into bullets: tabletop shock experiments

Abstract

A tabletop pulsed laser can launch a hypervelocity flyer plate to create high temperatures and pressures in a nanosecond in an array of solid or liquid samples.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2022
Source ID
10.1039/d2cp00418f

Entities

People

  • Dana D. Dlott

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • Army Research Office
  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow