All-solid-state diode-pumped Cr:LiSGAF laser amplifier system applied to laser ablation

Author

Parsons-Karavassilis, D. ; Cole, M.J. ; Jones, R. ; Dowling, K. ; Mellish, R. ; French, P.M.W. ; Taylor, J.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Med., London, UK

fYear

1999

fDate

28-28 May 1999

Firstpage

480

Lastpage

481

Abstract

To demonstrate the utility of all-solid-state diode-pumped laser technology, with its advantages of low cost and straightforward deployment, to ultrafast ablation of different materials including metals and dielectrics. After initially using an argon ion based Cr:LiSAF laser system (providing 10 ps pulses of up to 10 /spl mu/m energy at up to 25 kHz), we have successfully demonstrated the ablation of micron scale holes using an all diode-pumped tunable Cr:LiSGAF system.

Keywords

aluminium compounds; chromium; gallium compounds; high-speed optical techniques; laser ablation; laser beams; laser tuning; lithium compounds; optical pumping; solid lasers; strontium compounds; Cr:LiSrAlGaF/sub 6/ laser amplifier system; LiSrGaAlF/sub 6/:Cr; all-solid-state diode-pumped laser; dielectrics; laser ablation; metals; micron scale holes; ultrafast ablation; Argon; Costs; Dielectric materials; Diodes; Inorganic materials; Laser ablation; Optical materials; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO '99. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-595-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1999.834474

Filename

834474