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Features of the explosive boiling up of water irradiated by a Q-switched erbium laser

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, , Citation A A Samokhin et al 2007 Quantum Electron. 37 1141 DOI 10.1070/QE2007v037n12ABEH013739

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1 A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

2 P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

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  1. Received 9 October 2007
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Abstract

Subnanosecond pressure pulses were observed on the surface of water irradiated by 200-ns, 2.94-μm, 0.65–0.8-J cm-2 pulses from a Q-switched erbium laser. The pulses can be related to the development of explosive boiling up in a thin subsurface layer of the overheated water.

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