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By using a number of techniques and approaches certain differences between the beam interaction characteristics of CO 2 laser, a Nd:YAG laser, a high power diode laser (HPDL) and an excimer laser with a SiO 2/Al 2O 3 ceramic have been investigated. By employing a derivative of Beer-Lambert's law, the laser beam absorption lengths of the four lasers were calculated as 470±22μm for the CO 2 laser, 195±12μm for the Nd:YAG laser, 177 ±15μm for the HPDL and 7.5 ±19μm for the excimer laser. The fluence threshold values at which significant material removal occurs the CO 2 laser, Nd:YAG laser, HPDL and excimer laser were found to be 68, 128, 181 and 0.12J cm -2, respectively. Absorptivity measurements revealed that there is no correlation between the actual absorptivity of the SiO 2/Al 2O 3 ceramic and the absorption length for each of the four lasers. The thermal loading values for the CO 2 laser, the, Nd:YAG laser, the HPDL and the excimer laser were determined as 2.57, 6.73, 9.83 and 22.24 kJ cm -3, respectively. An examination of the laser induced meltpool propagation in the SiO 2/Al 2O 3 ceramic revealed good agreement with the Stefan solution to the diffusion equation for the CO 2, Nd:YAG and HPDLs. © 2002 Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 81-93 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Lasers in Engineering |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2002 |
Keywords
- Absorption
- Ceramic
- Interaction characteristis
- Laser
- Meltpool
- Thermal loading
- Threshold fluence
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Allegre, O. (PI), Crosby, D. (PI), Domingos, M. (PI), Francis, J. (PI), Gillen, D. (PI), Guo, W. (PI), Li, L. (PI), Mativenga, P. (PI), Rogers, B. D. (PI), Whitehead, D. (PI), Wilson, D. (PI), Zhong, S. (PI), Mirhosseini, N. (Researcher), Ouyang, J. (Researcher), Huang, Y. (Researcher), Wei, C. (Researcher), Cheng, D. (PGR student), Suryo Pratomo, E. (PGR student), Zhang, Z. (PGR student), Li, Z. (PGR student), Mo, H. (PGR student), Zhu, M. (PGR student), Li, Q. (PGR student), Liu, W. (PGR student), Wang, L. (PGR student), Guo, H. (PGR student), Heinemann, R. (PI) & Liu, Z. (PI)
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