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The dependence of the ablation rate of metals on nanosecond laser fluence and wavelength

I. VLADOIU1,* , M. STAFE1, C. NEGUTU1, I. M. POPESCU1

Affiliation

  1. Physics Departament , Faculty of Applied Sciences, University ”Politehnica” of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei 313, Bucharest, 060042, Romania

Abstract

The dependence of ablation rate of aluminium, titanium and copper on the nanosecond laser fluence at 532 nm and, respectively, 1064nm wavelengths is investigated in atmospheric air. The wavelength is varied by exchanging the fundamental and second harmonic modules of a Q-switched Nd-YAG laser system, while the fluence of the pulses is varied by changing the diameter of the irradiated area at the target surface. The results indicate an approximately logarithmic increase of the ablation rate with fluence for both wavelengths, and an approximately double ablation rate in the case of visible pulses as compare to infrared pulses. By extrapolating the ablation rate vs. fluence fitting curve toward zero, we estimate the ablation threshold fluence, Fth. The ablation threshold fluence is strongly dependent on the wavelength and target material. Thus, Fth in the case of infrared pulses is twice as large as Fth corresponding to the visible pulses, while Fth is lower for the aluminium and titanium as compared to the copper. A different behavior occurs in the case of copper, for which we obtained a two times smaller Fth when using infrared pulses comparative with the visible pulses..

Keywords

Ablation rate, Nanosecond laser, Metals, Infrared pulses.

Submitted at: Nov. 5, 2008
Accepted at: Dec. 10, 2008

Citation

I. VLADOIU, M. STAFE, C. NEGUTU, I. M. POPESCU, The dependence of the ablation rate of metals on nanosecond laser fluence and wavelength, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 10, Iss. 12, pp. 3177-3181 (2008)