P Bhargava
Articles written in Pramana – Journal of Physics
Volume 62 Issue 4 April 2004 pp 923-932
Impulse coupling in laser-driven microtargets
P Bhargava M Kumar H Kumar P Pandit R Pandey A K Nath
We have studied about the thrust imparted to targets of different materials by pulsed TEA CO2 laser and chopped CW CO2 laser in air and its dependence on different parameters such as laser intensity and pulse duration. We estimated the impulse-coupling coefficient and compared it with the published results. The mechanism of generation of thrust by laser incident on targets in air is, in effect, combination of those involved in laser ablation in vacuum and laser-induced air detonation.
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