[FLASH-USERS] Laser Energy Depositing

[Kaldawi, Thomas]

Hello,

I have two foils in the Laser Slab simulation (one at 30nm and the other at 0.5 microns), and the laser tends to go through the foils instead of reflecting/ablating them. I noticed that if I aim the laser at a small enough angle from the horizontal axis, the lasers will reflect off the foils as expected; however, at this current angle they just get absorbed into the foil which should not be happening. I do not know at what angle the lasers convert from relfecting to absorbing, but I would say it is around 30-40 degrees from the horizontal.

Does anyone have a solution to this? Maybe there is a setting in the laser energy that changes this?

Thank you,

Thomas Kaldawi
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