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Letter
Visible Spectroscopy in 1 TW, 50 fs Laser Interaction with Thin-Film Targets
Tetsuo Kubota,
Yoshio Wada and
Atsushi Ogata
Advanced Sciences of Matter, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8530, Japan
(Received August 21, 2003; accepted October 13, 2003; published December 3, 2003)
Visible radiation accompanying particle generation by a 1 TW, 50 fs laser irradiation of plastic and metal films was spectroscopically studied. Both the particles and radiation were generated in the forward and backward directions perpendicular to the target film. The radiation was measured along the path of the generated particles and separated into spectral components, providing information on the particle species (ions and neutral atoms) and their spatial distributions. Their dependencies on the film thickness of the two types of targets were also studied. Analysis of the spectral linewidth provided information on the temperature and density around the target.
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DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.42.L1512
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