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Theory and simulation on the threshold of water breakdown induced by focused ultrashort laser pulses
Abstract
A comprehensive model is developed for focused pulse propagation in water. The model incorporates self-focusing, group velocity dispersion, and laser-induced breakdown in which an electron plasma is generated via cascade and multiphoton ionization processes. The laser-induced breakdown is studied first without considering self-focusing to give a breakdown threshold of the light intensity, which compares favorably with existing experimental results. The simple study also yields the threshold dependence on pulse duration and input spot size, thus providing a framework to view the results of numerical simulations of the full model. The simulations establish the breakdown threshold in input power and reveal qualitatively different behavior for picoand femto-second pulses. For longer pulses, the cascade process provides the breakdown mechanism, while for shorter pulses the cooperation between the self-focusing and the multiphoton plasma generation dominates the breakdown threshold.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Feng, Q., Moloney, J. V., Newell, A. C., Wright, E. M., Cook, K., Kennedy, P. K., Hammer, D. X., Rockwell, B. A., & Thompson, C. R.
- Venue
- IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
- Published
- 1997
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 127-137
- ISSN
- 0018-9197 (ISSN-L)
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- W2105602845
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- 184
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- 5.51
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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