The onset of phase explosion and the role of damage accumulation in ultrafast laser processing of common metals in air

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5448, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 961-972

  Mannion, Paul ^a   O'Connor, Gerard M ^a   Coyne, Ed ^a,b   Howard, Helen ^a   Glynn, Thomas J ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b ANALOG DEVICES   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Ablation threshold; Femtosecond pulse laser; Laser materials processing; Material removal mechanisms; Metals

Indexed keywords

AIR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACKS; LASER ABLATION; METALS; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ABLATION THRESHOLD; FEMTOSECOND PULSE LASER; LASER MATERIAL PROCESSING; MATERIAL REMOVAL MECHANISMS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 12144278835     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.547043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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