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Interaction of laser radiation with matter

Stability of the front of laser evaporation of metals under conditions of limited vapour expansion

I. N. Kartashov^a, A. A. Samokhin<sup>b

a</sup> M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics
^b Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: The solutions of the dispersion equation for the perturbations of the front of laser evaporation of metals are studied for different Mach numbers M in the vaporised material flow. It is shown that the simultaneous manifestation of the hydrodynamic perturbations in the condensed medium and the gas-dynamic perturbations in the vapour flow for M < 1 significantly changes the dispersion curves compared to the cases of evaporation instability (M = 1) and Darrieus – Landau (M ≪ 1) instability.

PACS: 42.62.Cf, 52.38.Mf

Received: 20.05.2002
Revised: 04.12.2002

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2003, 33:5, 435–440

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