We demonstrate a three orders of magnitude increase and stability in the backscattered fluorescence signal from nitrogen molecules
by terawatt femtosecond laser pulse induced air filaments using a new method. The method is based on squeezing the initial
beam diameter using a telescope. The effect of laser shot-to-shot fluctuations was included in numerical simulations by a
random distribution of the initial intensity in both squeezed and non-squeezed beams. Statistical processing of the simulation
results shows that the average diameter of plasma channels as well as the total amount of free electrons generated in a bunch
of multiple filaments in air is larger in the squeezed beam. Shot-to-shot stability of the simulated plasma density increases
in the squeezed beam. The change of this plasma density with propagation distance is in good qualitative agreement with the
change of the range-corrected nitrogen fluorescence signal with distance.
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Enthalpies of mixing (mH) aqueous solutions of CoCl2, CuCl2, and MnCl2 with NaCl solutions were measured at constant ionic strengths of 0.5, 1.0, and 3.0 molal at 25°C. The excess enthalpy equations of Pitzer were then fit to the resulting mH data. The resulting parameters are the temperature derivatives of the activity coefficient mixing parameters in the Pitzer system. The heat of mixing data for CoCl2 and CuCl2 were in agreement with earlier isomolal results by other workers. 相似文献
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