Title :
Asymmetric Explosion of Laser-Irradiated Hydrogen Clusters
Author :
Chen, Yu-hsin ; Varma, Sanjay ; Kumarappan, Vinod ; Milchberg, Howard M.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Abstract :
Under conditions of small hydrogen cluster size, where we expected angular-dependent time-of-flight (TOF) proton spectra consistent with isotropic coulomb explosions, we instead found strong explosion asymmetry with fast protons emitted preferentially in the direction of the laser polarization.
Keywords :
hydrogen; laser beam effects; photoionisation; time of flight spectra; H; asymmetric explosion; hydrogen cluster size; laser irradiation; photoionization; time-of-flight proton spectra; Argon; Atomic beams; Electrons; Explosions; Gas lasers; Hydrodynamics; Hydrogen; Optical pulses; Polarization; Protons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453301
