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Absolute Displacement Interferometry of Ultrafast Laser-Produced Plasma Expansion

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Ultrafast Phenomena XIV

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Microscopic interferometric measurement of plasma expansion and surface motion during the laser-heating period of a metal target using a single ultrafast pump pulse is reported. A spatial resolution of approximately a few nanometers is achieved.

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  1. Condensed Matter and Thermal Physics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mail Stop K764, Los Alamos, NM, 87545

    George Rodriguez, Steven A. Clarke & Antoinette J. Taylor

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

    Takayoshi Kobayashi

  2. Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute Nagakute, Aichi, 480-1192, Japan

    Tadashi Okada

  3. Engineering Science, Osaka University, Machikaneyama-Cho 1-3, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-8531, Japan

    Tetsuro Kobayashi

  4. MIT Room 6-235, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Keith A. Nelson

  5. Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Sandro De Silvestri

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Rodriguez, G., Clarke, S.A., Taylor, A.J. (2005). Absolute Displacement Interferometry of Ultrafast Laser-Produced Plasma Expansion. In: Kobayashi, T., Okada, T., Kobayashi, T., Nelson, K.A., De Silvestri, S. (eds) Ultrafast Phenomena XIV. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 79. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27213-5_46

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