Mater.Phys.Mech.(MPM)
No 1, Vol. 41, 2019, pages 97-102

INFLUENCE OF AN EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD ON PARTICLE
GENERATION DURING LASER-PLASMA TREATING OF METALS

A.Yu. Ivanov, A.V. Kapytski, S.V. Vasiliev

Abstract

Evolution of plasma torch at the surface of some metals (Cu, Al, Sn, Pb) induced by varying external electric field of different polarity from 0 to 106 V/m-1 in the course of laser processing with the mean radiation flux density ∼ 106 W/cm-2 is studied. A size of the target material droplets, carried out from the irradiated zone, becomes several times less, as the field strength amplitude grows, independently of the field polarity.

Keywords: fast holographic filming, laser radiation, strip projection method

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