Shock and Detonation Physics at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Laser-accelerated flyer system for investigating reactions in Ni-Al mixtures

“…The laser-accelerated flyer system at Georgia Tech is designed similar to the set up used at Los Alamos [1], in which the laser energy is absorbed by a thin film of carbon coated on a glass substrate. Upon absorbing the incident laser energy, the carbon rapidly expands as a plasma, which accelerates and launches the flyer.…”