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Recently, we developed an optodynamic experimental technique that makes it possible to measure the linear momentum obtained by a metal target sample in the shape of a rod during a nanosecond laser pulse interaction in the ablative regime. The height of the rod’s rear end axial step-like displacement, caused by the first reflection of the laser-generated ultrasonic wave, is proportional to the linear momentum acquired by the rod. In comparison with commonly used ballistic methods, we can determine the acquired momentum on a much shorter time scale corresponding to the wave transition time, from the front to the rear end of the rod. Using this method we investigated the ambient air pressure dependence on the formation of linear momentum over a laser intensity range, from the ablation threshold to values about ten times higher. Steel rods of various diameters were used to demonstrate the effect of an expanding blast wave which delivers additional momentum to the target, when the laser beam on the target surface is smaller than the target itself. The typical value of the acquired target momentum is on the order of μN s and 10 μN s/J for the momentum coupling coefficient.
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Požar, T., Petkovšek, R. & Možina, J. Formation of linear momentum in a rod during a laser pulse–matter interaction. Appl. Phys. A 92, 891–895 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-008-4569-0
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