Abstract
The propagation of laser ablation plumes from 248 nm laser-irradiated YBCO into vacuum and 100 mTorr ambient oxygen has been photographed with a gated, intensified CCD array camera system. The thermalization of the laser plasma and onset of shock structures due to collisions with the background gas are investigated from two-dimensional digitized images of the visible plume emission.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2732-2734 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue number | 22 |
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| State | Published - 1992 |