Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy of high energy materials using nanosecond, picosecond, and femtosecond pulses: challenges and opportunities

Venugopal Rao Soma; Sreedhar S.; Ashwin Kumar M.; Prem Kiran P.; Surya P. Tewari; Manoj Kumar Gundawar

doi:10.1117/12.897821

23 August 2011 Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy of high energy materials using nanosecond, picosecond, and femtosecond pulses: challenges and opportunities

Venugopal Rao Soma, Sreedhar S., Ashwin Kumar M., Prem Kiran P., Surya P. Tewari, Manoj Kumar Gundawar

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Proceedings Volume 8173, Photonics 2010: Tenth International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics; 81731A (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.897821
Event: International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, 2010, Guwahati, India

Abstract

We present some of our initial experimental results from laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) studies of few high energy materials such as a simple match stick (MS) and BKNO3 (BPN), and ammonium perchlorate (AP) using nanosecond (ns), picosecond (ps), and femtosecond (fs) pulses. The characteristic peaks of each sample in different time domains are analyzed. The merits and de-merits of ultrashort pulses in LIBS experiments for discrimination of high energy materials are highlighted.

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Venugopal Rao Soma, Sreedhar S., Ashwin Kumar M., Prem Kiran P., Surya P. Tewari, and Manoj Kumar Gundawar "Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy of high energy materials using nanosecond, picosecond, and femtosecond pulses: challenges and opportunities", Proc. SPIE 8173, Photonics 2010: Tenth International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, 81731A (23 August 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.897821

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