Laser compression of glass shells
Afanas'ev Yu.V., Volosevich P.P., Gamalii E.G., Krokhin O.N., Kurdyumov S.P., Levanov E.I., Rozanov V.B.
Results are presented of numerical calculations on heat and compression of microscopic glass spheres by laser radiation. A comparison of the calculated picture with an x-ray photograph of the target [Pis'ma Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 23, 474 (1976)] points to a volume compression ~2X 102.