Assessment and mitigation of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) impacts at short-pulse laser facilities

Short-pulse laser-produced plasmas

In this review, the physics of short-pulse laser-produced plasmas at moderate intensities is described, together with applications to x-ray sources and material processing.

Electromagnetic pulse (EMP), Part II: Field-expedient ways to minimize its effects on field medical treatment facilities.

Part I of this paper showed that a field commander can expect approximately 65% of his unprotected electronic medical equipment to be damaged by the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from a single nuclear detonation as far as 2200 km away. Using computer modeling, field-expedient ways to minimize the effects of EMP were studied. The results were: (1) keep wiring near the ground, (2) keep wiring short...

Impacts of Ambient and Ablation Plasmas on Short- and Ultrashort-Pulse Laser Processing of Surfaces

In spite of the fact that more than five decades have passed since the invention of laser, some topics of laser-matter interaction still remain incompletely studied. One of such topics is plasma impact on the overall phenomenon of the interaction and its particular OPEN ACCESS Micromachines 2014, 5 1345 features, including influence of the laser-excited plasma re-radiation, back flux of energet...

Nuclear Explosions in Space: the Threat of Emp (electromagnetic Pulse) Mini Brief Number Mb82221 Author:

Electromagnetic Pulse and Civil Preparedness