Dynamics of femtosecond laser-induced breakdown in water from femtoseconds to microseconds. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Using time-resolved imaging and scattering techniques, we directly and indirectly monitor the breakdown dynamics induced in water by femtosecond laser pulses over eight orders of magnitude in time. We resolve, for the first time, the picosecond plasma dynamics and observe a 20 ps delay before the laser-produced plasma expands. We attribute this delay to the electron-ion energy transfer time.

publication date

  • February 11, 2002

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 1542555794

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1364/oe.10.000196

PubMed ID

  • 19424350

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 10

issue

  • 3