Interferometry And High Speed Photography Of Laser-Driven Flyer Plates

D. L. Paisley; N. I. Montoya; D. B. Stahl; I. A. Garcia

doi:10.1117/12.962423

17 January 1990 Interferometry And High Speed Photography Of Laser-Driven Flyer Plates

D. L. Paisley, N. I. Montoya, D. B. Stahl, I. A. Garcia

Proceedings Volume 1155, Ultrahigh Speed and High Speed Photography, Photonics, and Videography '89: Seventh in a Series; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.962423
Event: 33rd Annual Technical Symposium, 1989, San Diego, United States

Abstract

Laser-driven thin (2-10-1 thick) plates of aluminum and copper are accelerated to velocities ≥5 km/s by a 1.06^-11wavelength Nd:YAG 8^-10ns FWHM laser pulse at power densities 0.7-4.0 GW/cm2. Accelerations ≥10⁹ km/s2 have been achieved. The acceleration and velocity of these 0.4-1.0-mm-diameter plates are experimentally recorded by velocity interferometry (VISAR)1 and the planarity of impact by streak photography.2

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D. L. Paisley, N. I. Montoya, D. B. Stahl, and I. A. Garcia "Interferometry And High Speed Photography Of Laser-Driven Flyer Plates", Proc. SPIE 1155, Ultrahigh Speed and High Speed Photography, Photonics, and Videography '89: Seventh in a Series, (17 January 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.962423

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