Published October 2017
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Journal Article
Laser-Induced Breakdown in Liquid Helium
- Creators
- Sirisky, S.
- Yang, Y.
- Wei, W.
- Maris, H. J.
Abstract
We report on experiments in which focused laser light is used to induce optical breakdown in liquid helium-4. The threshold intensity has been measured over the temperature range from 1.1 to 2.8 K with light of wavelength 1064 nm. In addition to the measurement of the threshold, we have performed experiments to study how the breakdown from one pulse modifies the probability that a subsequent pulse will result in breakdown.
Additional Information
© 2017 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Received: 01 May 2017; Accepted: 19 June 2017; First Online: 27 June 2017. We thank Wei Guo for the loan of the EKSPLA laser and Paul Leiderer for very helpful information about the earlier experiments. This work was supported in part by the US National Science Foundation through Grant No. GR5260053.Additional details
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- 78641
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20170628-101824911
- GR5260053
- NSF
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