Preliminary studies of material surface cleaning with a multi-pulse passively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser

Optics and Laser Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 125-130

  Fenic, Constantin ^a   Dabu, Razvan ^a   Stratan, Aurel ^a   Blanaru, Constantin ^a   Ungureanu, Constantin ^a   Luculescu, Catalin ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LASER   (Romania)

Author keywords

Ablation rate; Multi pulse passively Q switched laser; Surface cleaning

Indexed keywords

LASER ABLATION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SURFACE CLEANING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

FREE-RUNNING LASERS; THERMAL DAMAGES;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0346093868     PISSN: 00303992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-3992(03)00144-0     Document Type: Article

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