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Laser-induced Microexplosion Confined in the Bulk of a Sapphire Crystal: Evidence of Multimegabar Pressures

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2006

Authors

Juodkazis, Saulius
Nishimura, K
Tanaka, Hiroshi
Misawa, Hiroaki
Gamaly, Eugene G
Luther-Davies, Barry
Hallo, Ludovic
Nicolai, Philippe
Tikhonchuk, Vladimir T

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American Physical Society

Abstract

Extremely high pressures (∼10TPa) and temperatures (5×105K) have been produced using a single laser pulse (100nJ, 800 nm, 200 fs) focused inside a sapphire crystal. The laser pulse creates an intensity over 1014W/cm2 converting material within the abso

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Keywords: Cooling systems; Heating; Hydrodynamics; Laser pulses; Pressure effects; Sapphire; Shock waves; Microexplosion; Nanovoid; Rarefaction waves; Sapphire cystal; Crystals

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/21627

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ANU Research Publications

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Physical Review Letters

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.166101

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