Soon after the invention of the pulsed ruby laser by Maiman in 1960, investigators were
eager to examine the potential of pulsed laser radiation for medical applications. It was …

Theoretical and experimental efforts to describe the expansion of laser-induced plasma
plume are reviewed. Particular attention has been devoted to a comparison between …

The physical processes of pulsed laser deposition (PLD) change strongly from the initial
light absorption in a target to the final deposition and growth of a film. One of the primary …

This chapter describes in detail the fundamental aspects of laser ablation processes,
including laser-induced plasma ignition and expansion leading to plasma emission and …

The influence of ambient pressure on the spectral emission features and expansion
dynamics of a plasma plume generated on a metal target has been investigated. The …

The physical phenomena involved in the interaction of a laser-generated plasma plume with
a background gas are studied numerically. A three-dimensional combined model is …

Laser surface texturing (LST) is one of the most promising technologies for controllable
surface structuring and the acquisition of specific physical surface properties needed in …

Particle size distributions and compositions of primary aerosols produced by means of near-
IR femtosecond laser ablation (λ= 775 nm) of brass in He or Ar at atmospheric pressure …

In this paper the most important features of Laser Induced Plasma (LIP) evolution were
analyzed from the fundamental point of view, in order to point out the effects of background …

We investigated the mechanisms of material ejection in Q-switched Er: YAG laser tissue
ablation (70-ns pulse duration) where moderate and large radiant exposures are associated …