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Nanosecond Heating of Aqueous Systems by Giant Laser Pulses

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WE have just been able to demonstrate heating of some pH-indicator systems within a few nanoseconds. We had suggested such very fast heating earlier1. At that time we were only able to demonstrate heating by a ruby-laser operating in its normal mode, associated with a flash of 600 µsec duration.

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  1. Czerlinski, G., Gibson, Q., and Staerk, H., Paper WB 2 Eighth Ann. Meeting Biophys. Soc., Chicago (1964).

  2. General Electrics type 6.6A–T21/2QC 2–45W.

  3. Czerlinski, G., Rev. Sci. Inst., 33, 1184 (1962).

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  1. Johnson Research Foundation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 4, Pa., USA

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STAERK, H., CZERLINSKI, G. Nanosecond Heating of Aqueous Systems by Giant Laser Pulses. Nature 205, 63–64 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205063a0

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