Plasma production by laser-driven explosively heated thin metal films
- 1 February 1985
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 57 (3), 827-829
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.334733
Abstract
A simple method of producing a relatively large volume of metal vapor for laser-plasma interaction studies is described. The method uses the explosive removal of a thin metal film from a glass substrate with a low-intensity laser pulse.Keywords
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