A thin-film Hugoniot measurement using a laser-driven flyer plate

Hiroki Fujiwara, Kathryn E. Brown, Dana D. Dlott

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Abstract

A method is described where a tabletop laser-driven flyer plate apparatus using ∼8 ns launching pulses from a Nd:YAG laser is used to determine the Hugoniot of a thin layer of transparent materials impacted by 25 μm thick flyers moving up to 2 km/s, producing shocks that were fully supported for 8 ns. In this method, a high-speed 8 GHz fiberoptic displacement interferometer looks through the transparent sample, which has an ultrathin 50% reflecting mirror deposited on its surface, to simultaneously measure U s and U p on a single shot. The initial results obtained on a 31 μm thick film of PMMA were in excellent agreement with the Hugoniot literature.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationShock Compression of Condensed Matter - 2011 - Proceedings of the Conference of the American Physical Society Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter
Pages382-385
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event17th Biennial Conference of the American Physical Society Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, 2011 APS SCCM - Chicago, IL, United States
Duration: Jun 26 2011Jul 1 2011

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume1426
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Other

Other17th Biennial Conference of the American Physical Society Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, 2011 APS SCCM
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityChicago, IL
Period6/26/117/1/11

Keywords

  • Hugoniot
  • laser-driven flyer
  • polymer

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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