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Experimental investigation of radiation-gasdynamic processes that develop under the action of high-power λ=10.6 μm laser pulses on a solid in a gas

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A cycle of experimental investigations was carried out on radiation-gasdynamic processes that evolve when high-power (∿1.5 GW) pulses from an electron-beamcontrolled CO2 laser act on a target in air or in inert gases at pressures 0.1–760 torr and flux densities 5·106 to 5·108 W/cm2. It is shown that at pressures above several torr a laser-radiation absorption wave is produced in the gas surrounding the target and determines the evolution of the interaction. The laser-stimulated-detonation, subsonic, and supersonic radiative regimes of absorption-wave propagation in gases are investigated under conditions of planar one-dimensional geometry of the experiment and at large (up to 20 cm2) area of the irradiated spot.

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Translated from Trudy Ordena Lenina Fizicheskogo Instituta im. P. N. Lebedeva, Vol. 142, pp. 117–171, 1983.

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Danilychev, V.A., Zvorykin, V.D. Experimental investigation of radiation-gasdynamic processes that develop under the action of high-power λ=10.6 μm laser pulses on a solid in a gas. J Russ Laser Res 5, 667–715 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01120455

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