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Ordering of Microcraters produced by a Laser on a Metal Surface

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Q-SWITCHED laser pulses focused on to a metal cause microcraters at the surface1,2. This communication deals with the formation and arrangement of microcraters produced by an unfocused pulse of power density ∼ 100 MW/cm2. The pulses, of width 1.0 × 10−8 s, were generated by a ruby laser, Q-switched by vanadyl phthalocyanine.

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BASTOW, T. Ordering of Microcraters produced by a Laser on a Metal Surface. Nature 222, 1058–1060 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2221058a0

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