Quantitative studies of thermally generated elastic waves in laser‐irradiated metals

Quantitative experimental measurements have been made in the study of thermoelastic generation of elastic waves in a metal by unfocused laser radiation. A calibrated wide‐band detection system, incorporating a capacitance transducer, has enabled acoustic waveforms to be recorded with a minimum of distortion. From these measurements, a theoretical model has been developed. The transfer function of the metal block has been deconvoluted to give the acoustic source function, which was modeled as a rapidly expanding point volume of material. The thermoelastic source generated longitudinal (L) and (S) waves, but the latter predominated at the epicenter, where, in experiments presented here, both wave amplitudes L and S were proportional to the total absorbed energy in the laser pulse.

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