Laser ablation and its applications /
Imprint: | New York, NY : Springer, ©2007. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 586 pages) : illustrations. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Springer series in optical sciences ; 129 Springer series in optical sciences ; v. 129. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11065845 |
Summary: | Laser ablation describes the interaction of intense optical fields with matter, in which atoms are selectively driven off by thermal or nonthermal mechanisms. The field of laser ablation physics is advancing so rapidly that its principal results are seen only in specialized journals and conferences. This will be the first book that combines the most recent results in this rapidly advancing field with authoritative treatment of laser ablation and its applications, including the physics of high-power laser-matter interaction. Many practical applications exist, ranging from inertial confinement fusion to propulsion of aerostats for pollution monitoring to laser ignition of hypersonic engines to laser cleaning nanoscale contaminants in high-volume computer hard drive manufacture to direct observation of the electronic or dissociative states in atoms and molecules, to studying the properties of materials during 200kbar shocks developed in 200fs. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 586 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 0387304525 9780387304526 9780387304533 0387304533 |