Theoretical analysis of a quasi-Bessel beam for laser ablation

Pinghui Wu; Chenghua Sui; and Wenhua Huang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.2.000082

Photonics Research, Volume. 2, Issue 3, 82(2014)

Theoretical analysis of a quasi-Bessel beam for laser ablation

Pinghui Wu^1,2、*, Chenghua Sui³, and and Wenhua Huang²

¹State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Department of Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

²Department of Physics, Huzhou University, Huzhou 313000, China

³Department of Applied Physics, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China

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Paper Information

Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Oct. 14, 2013

Accepted: Mar. 28, 2014

Published Online: Nov. 5, 2014

The Author Email: Pinghui Wu (wph1021@163.com)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.2.000082

Topics

laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

Laser physics

laser manufacturing

Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology