Title :
Comparative study of UV-laser ablation of PETG under nanosecond and femtosecond exposure
Author :
Lee, Andrew J. ; Withford, Michael J. ; Dawes, Judith M.
Author_Institution :
ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) and Centre for Lasers and Applications (CLA), Dept of Physics, Macquarie University, 2109, Sydney, Australia. alee@ics.mq.edu.au
Abstract :
In this paper we present results demonstrating that femtosecond UV laser ablation of polymers shows many similarities to nanosecond machining. Photothermal and photochemical processes occur in unison when processing polymers with UV fs pulses.
Keywords :
Absorption; Equations; Etching; Laser ablation; Laser modes; Laser theory; Machining; Optical pulses; Photochemistry; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2005. Pacific Rim Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9242-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2005.1569779
