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Some aspects of the intense evaporation of condensed media by laser radiation

A. A. Samokhin


Abstract: It is shown theoretically that, in a certain range of temperatures T₀ and pressures p, steady-state intense evaporation conditions with constant values of T₀ and p cannot be established on the surface of a condensed medium illuminated with laser radiation. Pulsations due to explosive breakup of the surface layer of the metastable liquid phase may appear in this range of temperatures and pressures.

UDC: 621.37:536.4

PACS: 61.80.Ba, 64.70.Fx, 68.03.Fg

Received: 23.01.1974

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1975, 4:9, 1144–1145