Accession Number:
AD1004653
Title:
Exploring Ultrafast Structural Dynamics for Energetic Enhancement or Disruption
Descriptive Note:
Technical Report,27 Mar 2013,01 Dec 2015
Corporate Author:
US Army Research Laboratory Aberdeen Proving Ground United States
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
2016-03-01
Pagination or Media Count:
20.0
Abstract:
A better understanding of the very early times during a detonation event has been difficult to obtain due to the rapid physical and chemical changes that are occurring under non-equilibrium conditions. Direct measurements of events leading up to a detonation are a challenge due to the extreme timescale 100 ps and highly dynamic environment. A more precise understanding of the excited states, energy flow processes, and chemical reactions at these time scales will lead to better predictive models and a more accurate theoretical treatment of energetic initiation. To explore this time scale we need to use ultrafast pump probe techniques to resolve the early time events of a detonation. We used 2 pump techniques, indirect laser heating and on-resonant optical pumping, to exciteperturb the energetic material to observe changes in the electronic and molecular structure with transient absorption and Raman probes, respectively. These techniques allowed us to monitor the temporal and molecular dynamics at time scales necessary to monitor early times of energetic events.