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A laser diode beam initiates a high-energy mercury perchlorate-polymer complex

S. I. Gerasimov^abc, M. A. Ilyushin^d, V. A. Kuzmin<sup>bc

a</sup> Sarov Physics Institute
^b Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Russian Federal Nuclear Center — All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics", Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region
^c Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University
^d State Technological Institute of St. Petersburg (Technical University)

Abstract: The possibility of initiating a charge of a light-sensitive high-energy mercury(II) perchlorate complex with a 1-H-5-hydrazinotetrazole ligand by a laser diode beam ($\lambda$ = 445 nm) has been studied for the first time. It is established that this radiation induces an explosion in the high-energy VS-2 composition based on the mercury complex composition with an optically transparent polymer. The initiation threshold and ignition delay time of VS-2 have been studied as functions of the laser beam energy. A mechanism of laser initiation of the mercury perchlorate complex is proposed.

Received: 06.10.2014

 English version: Technical Physics Letters, 2015, 41:4, 338–340

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