Ablation thresholds in ultrafast laser micro-machining of common metals in air

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4876, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 470-478

  Mannion, Paul ^a   Magee, Jonathan ^a   Coyne, Edward ^a   O'Connor, Gerard M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Ablation threshold; Femtosecond pulse laser; Laser materials processing; Metals; Micromachining

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; MICROMACHINING; THERMAL DIFFUSION; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

FEMTOSECOND PULSED LASERS;

LASER ABLATION;

EID: 0042563079     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.463744     Document Type: Conference Paper

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