Abbreviated Journal Title

Laser Phys.

Keywords

Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy; Applied Electric-Field; Emission-Spectroscopy; Ion-Beams; Ablation; Surface; Metals; Femtosecond; Wavelengths; Radiation; Optics; Physics; Applied

Abstract

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) was applied for parametric studies of titanium (Ti) plasma using single and double pulsed laser excitation scheme. Here a pulsed Nd:YAG laser was employed for generation of laser produced plasma from solid Ti target at ambient pressure. Several ionized titanium lines were recorded in the 312-334 nm UV region. The temporal evolution of plasma parameters such as excitation temperature and electron number density was evaluated. The effect of incident laser irradiance, position of the laser beam focal point with respect to the surface of illumination, single and double laser pulse effect on plasma parameters were also investigated. This study contributes to a better understanding of the LIBS plasma dynamics of the double laser pulse effect on the temporal evolution of various Ti emission lines, the detection sensitivity and the optimal dynamics of plasma for ionized states of Ti. The results demonstrate a faster decay of the continuum and spectral lines and a shorter plasma life time for the double pulse excitation scheme as compared with single laser pulse excitation. For double pulse excitation technique, the emissions of Ti lines intensities are enhanced by a factor of five which could help in the improvement of analytical performance of LIBS technique. In addition, this study proved that to avoid inhomogeneous effects in the laser produced plasma under high laser intensities, short delay times between the incident laser pulse and ICCD gate are required.

Journal Title

Laser Physics

Volume

19

Issue/Number

10

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

1981

Last Page

1992

WOS Identifier

WOS:000270657700009

ISSN

1054-660X

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