Percussion drilling of metals using bursts of nanosecond pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 10221-10231

  Hendow, Sami T ^a   Romero, Rosa ^a   Shakir, Sami A ^b   Guerreiro, Paulo T ^a  

^a Multiwave Photonics   (Portugal)

^b TASC Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORING; PERCUSSION WELDING;

1064 NM; A-THERMAL; NANOSECOND PULSE; PEAK POWER; PERCUSSION DRILLING; PULSE WIDTH; REPETITION FREQUENCY; SINGLE SHOTS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 79957583102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.010221     Document Type: Article

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