OPTIKA ATMOSFERY I OKEANA JOURNAL
V.E. ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS
Vol. 2, issue 06, article # 9
Soshnikov V. N. On the temperature gas effect on lowering of the aerosol optical breakdown threshold. // Atmospheric and oceanic optics. 1989. V. 2. No. 06. P. 505-509.Copy the reference to clipboard
Abstract:
An additional lowering of the threshold intensities of nonstationary optical breakdown on aerosols by several times compared to the theoretical ones can occur in air due to the gap between the electron and gas temperatures. The gap origin is determined by the "bottle neck" effect in the energy exchange between the internal degrees, of freedom, i.е., by excitation and deexcitation of lower metastable states of О and N atoms in the completely dissociated high temperature air plasma.