Abstract

The results of experiments on the action of a series of pulses of 1.7-ns radiation of a CO₂ laser on copper mirrors have been analyzed. A qualitative explanation of a number of observed experimental regularities is proposed, based on the excitation and energy dissipation of a surface electromagnetic wave by incident radiation in the vacuum–plasma-layer–metal system.

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