Title :
Laser ablation of stainless steel from 1 J/cm/sup 2/ to 10 LJ/cm/sup 2/
Author :
Norton, M.A. ; Murray, J.E. ; Boley, C.D. ; Sinz, K.H.
Author_Institution :
Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., California Univ., Livermore, CA, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. A requirement to robustly dissipate unwanted laser energy from hundreds to thousands of joules per square centimeter within the confines of vacuum spatial filters for the National Ignition Facility led to the investigation of metal as the intercepting surface. Stainless steel was studied in some detail for its suitability in this application. A regenerative zig-zag slab amplifier laser system with a single-frequency laser seed was used.
Keywords :
laser ablation; laser frequency stability; solid lasers; spatial filters; stainless steel; National Ignition Facility; intercepting surface; single-frequency laser seed; stainless steel laser ablation; vacuum spatial filters; zig-zag slab amplifier laser system; Cleaning; Glass; Laser ablation; Laser beam cutting; Optical materials; Optical pulses; Optical sensors; Space vector pulse width modulation; Steel; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-339-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.1998.676216
