%0 Journal Article
%K Model
%K Energy
%K Gas
%K Temperature
%K Measurements
%K Measurement
%K Surface
%K Ablation
%K Laser
%K Laser ablation
%K Laser ablation
%K Time-resolved
%K Mass
%K Plasma
%K Number
%K Properties
%K Property
%K Vapor
%K Ga
%K Electron number densities
%K Density
%K Electron
%K Electron number density
%K Energies
%K Number density
%K Laser-induced plasma
%K Laser-induced plasma
%K Plume
%K Propagation
%K Theoretical-model
%K Vapor plume
%A Xianzhong Zeng
%A Xianglei Mao
%A Samuel S Mao
%A Sy-Bor Wen
%A Ralph Greif
%A Richard E Russo
%B Applied Physics Letters
%D 2005
%F Laser
%G eng
%M 169
%T Laser-Induced Shockwave Propagation from Ablation in a Cavity
%2 LBNL-59070 
%X <p>The propagation of laser-induced shockwaves from ablation inside of cavities was determined from time-resolved shadowgraph images. The temperature and electron number density of the laser-induced plasma was determined from spectroscopic measurements. These properties were compared to those for laser ablation on the flat surface under the same energy and background gas condition. A theoretical model was proposed to determine the amount of energy and vaporized mass stored in the vapor plume based on these measurements.</p>