Laser-induced voltage of table salt for deep ultraviolet pulsed laser detection.

To meet the requirements of fast response and simple process of deep ultraviolet (UV) pulsed laser detector, table salt (TS) was used as laser detection material in combination with a variable resistor to achieve single-pulse laser detection. Under the irradiation of a KrF excimer laser, the laser-induced voltage (LIV) of TS was influenced by the dynamic process of laser-induced plasma, and the whole process was well fitted with the sum of the three exponential functions. As the applied bias voltage (V) and incident laser energy (E) increased, the LIV amplitude (V) increased and the response time decreased. When the variable resistor (R) was reduced to 14.7 Ω, the response time of LIV decreased from ∼300 μs to ∼20 ns, which is the same as the duration of laser pulse. This research provided a simple, low-cost, and fast method for the detection of UV single-pulse laser based on the laser-TS interaction.