Initial stage of extended laser breakdown in liquids

Author

Teslenko, V.S.

Author_Institution

Lavrentyev Inst. of Hydrodynamics, Acad. of Sci., Novosibirsk, USSR

fYear

1990

fDate

10-14 Sep 1990

Firstpage

370

Lastpage

373

Abstract

The kinetics of a laser breakdown in liquids taking into account stimulated scattering has been studied theoretically and experimentally. It has been shown that optical breakdown directions coincide with those of stimulated Brillouin scattering and stimulated Raman scattering. It is concluded that the description of the kinetics of extended optical breakdown should be based on the assumption that extended laser breakdown in pure media is a `catastrophe´ in the process of development of absolute and convective instability, which initially corresponds to the processes of cascade stimulated scattering generation

Keywords

electric breakdown of liquids; laser beam effects; stimulated Brillouin scattering; stimulated Raman scattering; cascade stimulated scattering generation; convective instability; extended laser breakdown; liquids; stimulated Brillouin scattering; stimulated Raman scattering; stimulated scattering; Brillouin scattering; Electric breakdown; Kinetic theory; Laser theory; Liquids; Nonlinear optics; Optical scattering; Quantum cascade lasers; Raman scattering; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Conduction and Breakdown in Dielectric Liquids, 1990. ICDL 1990. Conference Record., 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Grenoble

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDL.1990.202925

Filename

202925