Laser Ablation And Its Applications

by Phipps, Claude

• ISBN13: 9780387304526
• ISBN10: 0387304525
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Laser ablation describes the interaction of intense optical fields with matter, in which atoms are selectively driven off by thermal or nonthermal mechanisms. The field of laser ablation physics is advancing so rapidly that its principal results are seen only in specialized journals and conferences. This will be the first book that combines the most recent results in this rapidly advancing field with authoritative treatment of laser ablation and its applications, including the physics of high-power laser-matter interaction. Many practical applications exist, ranging from inertial confinement fusion to propulsion of aerostats for pollution monitoring to laser ignition of hypersonic engines to laser cleaning nanoscale contaminants in high-volume computer hard drive manufacture to direct observation of the electronic or dissociative states in atoms and molecules, to studying the properties of materials during 200kbar shocks developed in 200fs.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Basic Physics and Simulations
1 Numerical Simulation of the Expansion into Vacuum of a Crystal Heated by an Ultrashort Laser Pulse
S.I. Anisimov, N.A. Inogamov, Yu. V. Petrov, V.V. Zhakhovskii, K. Nishihara	1	(16)
2 Fast Electronic Transport and Coulomb Explosion in Materials Irradiated with Ultrashort Laser Pulses
N.M. Bulgakova, R. Stoian, A. Rosenfeld, I.V. Hertel, E.B. Campbell	17	(20)
3 New Methods for Laser Cleaning of Nanoparticles
B.S. Luk'yanchuk, W.D. Song, Z.B. Wang, M.H. Hong, T.C. Chong, J. Graf M. Mosbacher, P. Leiderer	37	(30)
4 Plume Dynamics
J. Schou, S. Amoruso, J.G. Lunney	67	(30)
5 New Aspects of Laser-induced Ionization of Wide Band-gap Solids
V.E. Gruzdev	97	(24)
Part 2: Ultrafast Interactions
6 Three-dimensional Material Processing with Femtosecond Lasers
A. Ovsianikov, S. Passinger, R. Houbertz, B.N. Chichkov	121	(38)
7 Ultrafast Optical Measurements of Shocked Materials
D.J. Funk, D.S. Moore, S.D. McGrane	159	(26)
8 Time and Space-resolved Spectroscopy
R.F. Haglund, Jr.	185	(30)
9 Physical Chemistry of Ultrafast Laser Interactions with Solids
W. Kautek	215	(16)
10 Femtosecond Plasma-mediated Nanosurgery of Cells and Tissues
A. Vogel, J. Noack, G. Hüttman, G. Paltauf	231	(50)
Part 3: Material Processing
11 Designed Polymers for Ablation
L. Urech, T. Lippert	281	(18)
12 Fabrication of Waveguides by Laser Deposition
T. Okato, M. Obara	299	(16)
13 Pulsed Laser Deposition For Functional Optical Films
C.N. Afonso, J. Gonzalo, R. Sena, J. Solis	315	(24)
14 Laser Forward Transfer of Electronic and Power Generating Materials
A. Piqué, H. Kim, C.B. Arnold	339	(36)
Part 4: Laser-matter interaction in novel regimes
15 Development of Inertial Fusion Energy by Lasers
S. Nakai, K. Mima	375	(32)
16 Laser Space Propulsion
C.R. Phipps, J.R. Luke	407	(28)
17 Laser Propulsion Thrusters for Space Transportation
W.O. Scholl, H-A. Eckel, W.L. Bohn	435	(20)
18 Laser Propulsion
T. Yabe, S. Uchida	455	(18)
19 Nano-structuring using Pulsed Laser Radiation
C.P. Grigoropoulos, A. Chimmalgi, D.J. Hwang	473	(32)
20 Soft Laser Desorption Ionization – MALDI, DIOS and Nanostructures
A. Vertes	505	(24)
21 Materials Modification with Intense Extreme Ultraviolet Pulses from a Compact Laser
M.E. Grisham, G. Vaschenko, C.S. Menoni, L. Juha, M. Bittner, Yu. P. Pershyn, V.V. Kondratenko, E.N. Zubarev, A.V. Vinogradov, I.A. Artioukov, J.J. Rocca	529	(20)
22 Laser Restoration of Painted Artworks
G. Bounos, A. Nevin, S. Georgiou, C. Fotakis	549	(30)
Index	579