Sub- and Supersonic Heat Motion Induced by Femtosecond Laser Pulses

2003/11/28 by Janina Marciak-Kozłowska, J. Marciak-Kozlowska, Marciak-Kozlowska, J. +3
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Combustion and flame dynamics #Laser Material Processing Techniques #Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma #cond-mat

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0311642

11 pages, 11 figures

arxiv created 2003/11/28 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

In this paper the superheating of electron plasma by femtosecond laser pulses is investigated. With Heaviside thermal equation (Lasers in Engineering, 12, (2002), p.17) the generation of superhot electrons is described. It is shown that in hot electron plasma (i.e. with electron energies >5MeV) the thermal shock waves can be generated. Key words: Femtosecond laser pulses; Hot electron plasma; Shock thermal waves.

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