INFLUENCE OF TARGET GEOMETRY ON THE PARAMETERS 
OF A LASER-EMISSION DISCHARGE

V. V. Shkurko

UDC 621.378.9

The relationship between the geometry of a plasma-forming 
target and the parameters of a laser-emission discharge is investigated. 
It is shown that by selecting the corresponding geometry of an irradiated 
sample it is possible to change the coefficient of laser radiation 
energy conversion into the energy of unidirectional quasistationary 
electric current.

Institute for the Training of Scientific Personnel, National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 1 Knorin Str., Minsk, 220049, Belarus. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 81, No. 2, pp. 
240-242, March-April, 2008. Original article submitted July 
30, 2007.