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Interaction of laser radiation with matter

Continuous optical discharge burning at elevated pressures

Yu. P. Raizer, S. T. Surzhikov


Abstract: Equations describing a continuous optical discharge at pressures of 2–60 atm were integrated numerically. The power threshold was determined. A comparison was made with an experiment in air at an elevated pressure. It was established that a continuous optical discharge with a focusing spot of small radius exists at all pressures. There is an upper pressure limit when the radius of the focusing spot is large.

UDC: 533.9.15:537.52.7

PACS: 52.80.-s, 42.60.Jf, 42.62.-b

Received: 29.07.1987

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1988, 18:3, 349–351

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