High-Power Laser Ablation II Book

	Superhigh-power laser systems and their application	2
	Then and now	16
	Advanced diode-pumped solid state lasers (DPSSLs): near-term trends and future prospects	21
	Efficient first-overtone CO laser as a potential source of IR radiation (y=2.5 to 4.2 um) for frequency-selective laser ablation	34
	Laser lightcraft performance	48
	Japanese activity on laser applications in space	54
	Momentum coupling efficiency of laser ablation for space debris removal	65
	Focus characteristics of long-distance flying optics	74
	Mechanisms of nonstationary self-focusing during pulse IR laser radiation propagation in a gaseous medium	82
	Experimental and numerical study of pulsed laser ablation in vacuum and ambient gas: application to pulsed laser deposition of thin films	96
	Acceleration of carbon ions in a skin-layer interaction regime in laser ablation experiments	111
	Laser ablation of sapphire with ultrashort pulses	121
	Characteristics and mechanism of myocardium tissue laser ablation: in-vitro study for transmyocardial laser revascularization	132
	Ceramic coating of metal by laser heat treatment at ambient pressure and temperature	140
	Light alloy valorization by excimer laser surface nitriding	148
	Interaction of pulsed CO and CO2 laser radiation with rocks typical of an oil field	159
	Laser removal of the oxide layer on anodized aluminum	171
	Detection of Si-nanoclusters produced by laser ablation: delay time in photoluminescence and Rayleigh scattering	182
	Time-of-flight mass spectrometric studies on laser ablation dynamics of graphite: correlation to diamondlike carbon film deposition	193
	Excitation and relaxation dynamics of electrons and phonons in solids absorbing subpicosecond laser pulses	200
	Effects of anomalous high penetration rate of high-power KrF laser radiation throughout the solid matter and shock-induced graphite-diamond phase transformation	212
	Evaluation of plasma-supported ablation processes in pulsed laser-target effects	224
	Gas and plasma structures	236
	Model for the coupled predictive assessment of plasma expansion and material compression in laser shock processing applications	252
	Ablation of metals by ultrashort laser pulses: theoretical modeling and computer simulations	266
	Excimer surface treatment of sol gel coatings	276
	UV laser ablative figuring of precise optics	284
	Fabrication study of double-cladding structure in optical fibers using plasma channeling induced by a femtosecond laser	293
	Fabrications of optically functional thin films for electric and magnetic field sensors by pulsed laser deposition	304
	Laser-induced damage threshold and laser processing of GaN	311
	Experimental study of hydrogen-free DLC film deposition by XeCl (308 nm) pulsed laser ablation	323
	CaS:Eu,Sm films prepared by pulsed laser deposition	331
	Fabrication of Nd, Cr co-doped GGG thin films for a Q-switched waveguide laser by the two-target pulsed KrF laser deposition method	337
	Formation and propagation of shock electromagnetic waves in transparent solids	346
	Initiation of femtosecond laser-induced damage and ablation of transparent solids by shock electromagnetic waves	358
	Impulse generated from laser targets	370
	Windows of laser transport for space applications	378
	Edge radiation in short-wavelength (extreme-UV and x-ray) free-electron lasers using classical and quantum interference	385
	Binary optical tilt wavefront corrector in adaptive optical CO2 laser resonator	396
	F2 laser ablation process of silica glass	401
	Polymer ablation by ultrashort pulsed lasers	409
	Laser-induced variations of light polarization of tightly focused laser beams	416
	Sound velocity vl and vl/4 solitonlike wave components observation in ZnS excited by high-power IR laser pulse	428
	Hydrodynamic regime of laser ablation of metals by ultrashort laser pulses of low fluence	439
	Heat transport in metals irradiated by ultrashort laser pulses	446
	Exploring the explosive ablation regime of metals in nanosecond micromachining	453
	Visualization of ultrafast dynamics of laser pulse propagation in the atmosphere using a novel measurement method: FTOP (femtosecond time-resolved optical polarigraphy)	461
	Probe measurements of XeCl excimer laser ablated Al, Cu, Nb, and Ta solid samples	471
	Thermal regime of laser ablation of metals by ultrashort pulses of low fluences	481
	Ablation process induced by high-energy radiation	491
	Modeling and diagnostics of pulsed laser-solid interactions: applications to laser cleaning	499
	Pulse duration dependence of metal ablation using a femtosecond titanium sapphire laser	509
	Pulsed CO2 laser ablation of polished steel and titanium nitride-coated steel	517
	Crack on inner-pressurized cylindrical shells under laser beam loading	525
	High-precision system for wavefront control	530