Abstract
Periodicity is the most impressive feature of fiber fuse damage. However, the damaging action wears a veil of blinding light emission. Therefore, periodic void formation process is reproduced as an animation of fused damage photographs. In cylindrical mode, periodic separation of a small void from the hollow silica melt behind the traveling plasma and successive asymmetric compression makes the void bullet-like shape. In addition, two types of periodic voids are seen in unstable mode. They are brought about by transient structural variation of the plasma tail.
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As a matter of fact, this bridge formation during quenching was carefully excluded from the previous discussion on Fig. 2.4e–h assuming that the plasma outline is frozen into a void shape.
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Todoroki, Si. (2014). Periodic Void Formation. In: Fiber Fuse. NIMS Monographs. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54577-4_3
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