Abstract
We present a theoretical model for the heating of metal targets by CO2 laser pulses, with air plasma ignition. Such modeling is necessary for deduction of the details of the thermal transient at the target surface, direct measurement of the transient being difficult or impossible, and the thermal flux being determined by the plasma coupling efficiency rather than the laser flux. Our model permits calculation of the thermal transient from simple time‐integrated thermal fluence and energy deposition data.
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