MECHANISMS OF LASER-SURFACE INTERACTIONS

Abstract

The work described in this report deals with the measurement of particle emission from metal surfaces irradiated with light flux densities of 50-70 Mw/sq cm, as well as calculations of the velocity distribution of the particles from the measured pulse shapes. Measurements in the quadrupole mass spectrometer have shown that, besides the thermal gas desorption, the neutral particle emission contains a photon pulse and several high velocity non-zero- mass pulses. Tentative assignments of masses and energies of the high speed neutral pulses are made.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0636680

Entities

People

  • G. E. Bernal
  • J. F. Ready
  • L. P. Levine

Organizations

  • Honeywell International, Inc.

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption Coefficients
  • Alkali Metals
  • Charged Particles
  • Crystal Structure
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Escape Velocity
  • Ionization
  • Laser Beams
  • Lasers
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Mass Spectrometers
  • Measurement
  • Spectra

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics
  • Solar Physics

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers