Pulsetrain ´burst´ machining: ultrafast-laser microprocessing at ultrahigh (>100 MHz) pulse-rates

Author

Marjoribanks, R.S. ; Kerachian, Y. ; Herman, Peter R. ; Camacho-Lopez, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. & Photon. Res., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

575

Lastpage

576

Abstract

Summary form only given. Successive generations of laser-materials processing have been differentiated by new ways of delivering fluence. Fluence delivered in intense ultrafast (\n\n\t\t

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser beam machining; laser materials processing; nonlinear optics; silicon compounds; 1 ps; 100 MHz; SiO/sub 2/; ablative cooling; absorption; big photons; competing timescales; fluence; fused silica; intense ultrafast pulses; ionization; large bandgap; laser processing; laser sources; laser-machining; laser-materials processing; many photons; nonlinear effects; pulsetrain burst machining; short-wavelength lasers; thermal transport; transparent optical glasses; ultrafast lasers; ultrafast-laser microprocessing; ultrahigh pulse-rates; weak linear absorption; wide-bandgap materials; Absorption; Glass; Ionization; Machining; Nonlinear optics; Optical materials; Optical pulses; Photonic band gap; Silicon compounds; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.948182

Filename

948182