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Investigation of Early Plasma Evolution Induced by Ultrashort Laser Pulses
Published on: July 2, 2012
[Effects of argon atmosphere at high pressure on electron temperature of laser-induced Cu plasmas]
Jin-Zhong Chen1, Jin-Chao Shi, Qing-Lin Guo
1College of Physics Science and Technology, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China.
Abstract:
Copper plasma was induced with a high energy neodymium glass laser(0-25J) beam ablating the Cu target in argon atmosphere. It was observed that the line intensity of the emission spectra increases when the ambient pressure(0.1-0.5 MPa) rises. In order to study the enhancement mechanism, with the model of local thermodynamic equilibrium, the electron temperature was measured in argon atmosphere. The experimental results showed that electron temperature increases as the pressure rises. In addition, spatially resolved electron temperature was measured in Ar atmosphere at 0.1, 0.3, 0.5 MPa.
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