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Opto-Electronic Engineering, Volume. 52, Issue 6, 250056(2025)

Femtosecond laser polishing of titanium surfaces

Xiaokang Yang¹, Peng Li², Zi Wang², Mingwei Wang¹, and Hongliang Liu^1、*

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¹Institute of Modern Optics, College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China

²Xi'an Zhongke Micro Precision Photonics Technology Co., Ltd., Xi'an, Shaanxi 710065, China

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Category: Article

Received: Feb. 27, 2025

Accepted: May. 14, 2025

Published Online: Sep. 3, 2025

The Author Email: Hongliang Liu (刘洪亮)

DOI:10.12086/oee.2025.250056

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laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

laser manufacturing

Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology