УДК: 536.421

Small-scale microstructures that appear on metallic mirrors acted on by nanosecond pulses of CO2-laser radiation

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Макин В.С. Мелкомасштабные микроструктуры на металлических зеркалах, возникающие при действии наносекундных импульсов излучения СО₂-лазера // Оптический журнал. 2012. Т. 79. № 4. С. 3–8.

Makin V. S. Small-scale microstructures that appear on metallic mirrors acted on by nanosecond pulses of CO₂-laser radiation [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2012. V. 79. № 4. P. 3–8.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

V. S. Makin, "Small-scale microstructures that appear on metallic mirrors acted on by nanosecond pulses of CO₂-laser radiation," Journal of Optical Technology. 79(3), 198-201 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.79.000198

Abstract:

The results of experiments on the action of a series of pulses of 1.7-ns radiation of a CO₂-laser on copper mirrors have been analyzed. A qualitative explanation of a number of observed experimental regularities is proposed, based on the excitation and energy dissipation of a surface electromagnetic wave by incident radiation in the vacuum–plasma-layer–metal system.

Keywords:

CO2-pulsed laser light, breakdown plasma, reflection radiation, metal mirror, surface electromagnetic wave, ordered destruction structures

OCIS codes: 350.5340, 50.3390

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