Simple model for laser-produced, mass-limited water-droplet plasmas

Garloff, Kurt and Donker van den, Michiel and Mullen van der, Joost and Goor van, Fred and Brummans, Ralph and Jonkers, Jeroen (2002) Simple model for laser-produced, mass-limited water-droplet plasmas. Physical Review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 66 . ISSN 1539-3755

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Abstract:	Plasmas, produced by a neodymium yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG) laser pulse focused on a small water droplet and used for the generation of extreme ultraviolet light, can be described by a relatively simple model due to the fact that thermodynamic equilibrium can be assumed for the most important phase. Only three time-dependent variables¿radius, expansion speed, and internal energy¿are needed to describe the physics of the plasma. Nevertheless, it predicts quantities such as the size and the spectrum rather well. It is expected that the theory and the model presented here can also be applied to other laser-produced plasmas.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	©2002 The American Physical Society
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Laser Physics and Nonlinear Optics (LPNO)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/57686
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.66.036403
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