Effects of radial and tangential polarization in laser material processing

Physics Procedia

Volumn 12, Issue PART 1, 2011, Pages 21-30

  Weber, Rudolf ^a   Michalowski, Andreas ^a   Abdou Ahmed, Marwan ^a   Onuseit, Volkher ^a   Rominger, Volker ^b   Kraus, Martin ^a   Graf, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b TRUMPF LASER UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Azimuthal polarization; Cylindrical polarization; Fresnel absorption; Laser cutting; Laser drilling; Laser welding; Radial polarization; Tangential polarization

Indexed keywords

HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER BEAM WELDING; LASER BEAMS; MANUFACTURE; POLARIZATION; WELDING;

AZIMUTHAL POLARIZATION; CYLINDRICAL POLARIZATION; FRESNEL ABSORPTION; LASER CUTTING; LASER DRILLING; RADIAL POLARIZATION;

LASER MATERIALS PROCESSING;

EID: 79959432895     PISSN: 18753884     EISSN: 18753892     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phpro.2011.03.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (42)

1. V. G. Niziev, A. V. Nesterov, "Influence of beam polarization on laser cutting efficiency", J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 32, 1455-1461 (1999).
2. M. Meier, V. Romano, and T. Feurer, "Material processing with pulsed radially and tangentially polarized laser radiation", Appl. Phys. A 86, 329-334 (2007). (Pubitemid 46088336)
3. T. Moser, M. Abdou Ahmed, M. Schäfer, A. Voss, M. Vogel, and T. Graf, "Exploiting radial polarization in material processing", presented at the Stuttgart Laser Technology Forum, Stuttgart, Germany, 4-6 March 2008.
4. Q. Zahn, "Trapping metallic rayleigh particles with radial polarization, " Opt. Express 12, 3377-3382 (2004).
5. M. Kraus, M. Abdou Ahmed, A. Michalowski, A. Voss, R. Weber, and T. Graf, "Microdrilling in steel using ultrashort pulsed laser beams with radial and azimuthal polarization, " Opt. Express 18(21), 22305-22313 (2010).
6. R. Weber, M. Abdou-Ahmed, A. Michalowski, P. Berger, P. Gärtner, V. Onuseit, M. Kraus, A. Voß, T. Graf, "Radial and azimuthal polarization in laser cutting, welding and drilling", Advanced Laser Technologies ALT2010, Egmond-aan-Zee, Netherlands.
7. M. Abdou Ahmed et al., paper under submission.
8. M. Abdou-Ahmed, M. Vogel, V. Onuseit, A. Voss, R. Weber, and T. Graf, "Radially polarized thin-disk laser with 1-kW power, " invited talk, presented at the International Laser Physics Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, 13-17 July 2009.
9. M. Abdou Ahmed, J. Schulz, A. Voss, O. Parriaux, J.C. Pommier, and T. Graf, "Radially polarized 3 kW beam from a CO2 laser with an intracavity resonant grating mirror, " Opt. Lett. 32, 1824-1826 (2007). (Pubitemid 351292635)
10. M. Abdou Ahmed, A. Voß, M. Vogel, A. Austerschulte, J. Schulz, V. Metsch, T. Moser, and T. Graf, "Radially polarized high-power lasers, " Proc. SPIE 7131, 71311I-1-71311I-10 (2008).
11. M. Abdou-Ahmed, M. M. Vogel, A. Voss, and Th. Graf, "A 1-kW radially polarized thin-disk laser", CLEO Europe 2009, Munich (2009), Germany.
12. M. Endo, "Azimuthally polarized 1 kW CO2 laser with a triple-axicon retroreflector optical resonator", Opt. lett. 33, 1771-1773 (2008).
13. J. Li, K. Ueda, L. Zhong, M. Musha, A. Sihirakawa, T. Sato, "Efficient excitations of radially and azimuthally polarized Nd3+:YAG ceramic microchip laser by use of subwavelength multilayer gratings composed of Nb2O5/SiO2", Opt. Exp. 16, 10841-10848 (2008).
14. G. Machavariani, Y. Lumer, I. Moshe, A. Meir, and S. Jackel, "Efficient extracavity generation of radially and azimuthally polarized beams", Opt. Lett. 32, 1468-1470 (2007). (Pubitemid 351292769)
15. P. Phua, W. Lai, Y.Lim, B. Tan, R. Wu, K. Lai, H. Tan, "High Power Radial Polarization Conversion Using Photonic Crystal Segmented Half-Wave- Plate", Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2008 paper: CMO4.
16. Siddharth Ramachandran, Poul Kristensen, and Man F. Yan, "Generation and propagation of radially polarized beams in optical fibers", Opt. Lett. 34, 2525-2527 (2009).
17. A. Voß, M. Abdou Ahmed, and Th. Graf, "Extension of the Jones Matrix formalism to higher-order transverse modes", Opt. Lett. 32, No.1, 83-86, 2007.
18. A. Voss, M. Abdou Ahmed, and Th. Graf, "Application of the extended Jones matrix formalism for higher-order transverse modes to laser resonator", Opt. Exp. 18, No.21, 21540-21550, 2010.
19. Th. Liebig, M. Abdou Ahmed, A. Voss, T. Graf, "Novel multi-sensor polarimeter for the characterization of inhomogeneously polarized laser beams", LASE, Photonics West 2010, San Francisco, California, USA. 2010.
20. M. Abdou Ahmed, A. Voss, M. M. Vogel, and Th. Graf, "Multilayer polarizing grating mirror used for the generation of radial polarization in Yb:YAG thin-disk laser", Opt. Lett. 32, No 22, 3272-3274, 2007. (Pubitemid 351328394)
21. C. Stolzenburg, and A. Giesen, "Picosecond Regenerative Yb:YAG Thin Disk Amplifier at 200 kHz Repetition Rate and 62 W Output Power", in Advanced Solid-State Photonics, Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2007), paper MA6.
22. T. Moser, J. Balmer, D. Delbeke, P. Muys, S. Verstuyft, and R. Baets, "Intracavity generation of radially polarized CO2 laser beams based on a simple binary dielectric diffraction grating", Appl. Opt. 45, 8517-8522 (2006).
23. Moshe, S. Jackel, and A. Meir, "Production of radially or azimuthally polarized beams in solid-state lasers and the elimination of thermally induced birefringence effects", Opt. Lett. 28, 807-809 (2003).
24. I. Moshe, S. Jackel, A. Meir, Y. Lumer, and E. Leibush, "2 kW, M2 < 10 radially polarized beams from aberration-compensated rod-based Nd: YAG lasers", Opt. Lett. 3, 47-49 (2007).
25. S.C. Tidwell, G.H. Kim, and W.D. Kimura, "Efficient radially polarized laser beam generation with a double interferometer", Appl. Opt. 32, 5222-5229 (1993).
26. K. C. Toussaint, S. Park, J.E. Jureller, and N. F. Scherer, "Generation of optical vector beams with a diffractive optical element interferometer", Opt. Lett. 30, 2846-2848 (2005). (Pubitemid 41654971)
27. S. Quabis, R. Dorn, and G. Leuchs, "Generation of a radially polarized doughnut mode of high quality", Appl. Phys. B 81, 597-600 (2005). (Pubitemid 41344103)
28. W. Lai, B. Lim, P. Phua, K. Tiaw, H. Teo, and M. Hong, "Generation of radially polarized beam with a segmented spiral varying retarder, " Opt. Exp. 16, 15694-15699 (2008).
29. 2 Lasers". In: Proceedings of SLT 2010: 8-10.6.2010.
30. Onuseit, V; Abdou Ahmed, M.; Weber, R.; Graf, T.: "Space-resolved Spectrometric Measurements of the Cutting Front". In: Proceedings of LIM 2011.
31. Schulz, W.; Becker, D.; Franke, J.; Kemmerling, R.; Herzinger, G.: "Heat conduction losses in laser cutting of metals". In: Journal of Applied Physics: 26 (1993) 1357-1363.
32. Berger, P.; Hügel, H.; Hess, A.; Weber, R.; Graf, T.; "Understanding of Humping Based on Conservation of Volume Flow"; In: Proce. of LIM 2011.
33. V. Rominger: "Prozessuntersuchungen beim Laserstrahltiefschweißen - Festkörperlaser hoher Brillanz im Vergleich zu CO2-Lasern", DVS Reports Vol. 267, DVS Congress 2010, Nuremberg, pp. 188-193.
34. V. Rominger: "High-performance laser welding - A comparison of high-brilliance CO2 lasers and solid-state lasers", Laser Technik Journal 03, (2011).
35. Berger, P", Absorption and Melt-Flow in Keyhole Laser Welding". In: Proceedings of SLT 2010: 8-10.6.2010.
36. D. Breitling, C. Föhl, F. Dausinger, T. Kononenko, and V. Konov, in Femtosecond Technology for Technical and Medical Applications, F. Dausinger, F. Lichtner and H. Lubatschowski, eds. (Springer, Berlin, 2004).
37. H. Tönshoff, C. Momma, A. Ostendorf, S. Nolte, and G. Kamlage, "Microdrilling of metals with ultrashort laser pulses, " J. Laser Appl. 12, 23-27 (2000).
38. Föhl, C., Dausinger, F., "High precision deep drilling with ultrashort pulses" Proc. SPIE 5063, 346-351 (2003).
39. J. Chang, B. Warner, E. Dragon, and M. Martinez, "Precision micromachining with pulsed green lasers", J. Laser Applications 10, 285-291 (1998). (Pubitemid 128639986)
40. Ancona, F. Röser, K. Rademaker, J. Limpert, S. Nolte, and A. Tünnermann, "High speed laser drilling of metals using a high repetition rate, high average power ultrafast fiber CPA system", Opt. Express 16, 8958-8968 (2008).
41. M. Kraus, S. Collmer, S. Sommer, and F. Dausinger, "Microdrilling in steel with frequency-doubled ultrashort pulsed laser radiation", J. Laser Micro/Nanoengineering 3, 129-134 (2008).
42. Michalowski, D. Walter, F. Dausinger, and T. Graf, "Melt dynamics and hole formation during drilling with ultrashort pulses", J. Laser Micro/Nanoengineering 3, 211-215 (2008).