Basics of lasers and laser optics / Michelle Shinn -- Fundamentals of laser-material interactions / Ettore Carpene, Daniel Höche, and Peter Schaaf -- Laser-plasma interactions / Ion N. Mihailescu and Jörg Hermann -- Laser ablation and thin film deposition / Christof W. Schneider and Thomas Lippert -- Processing with ultrashort laser pulses / Jürgen Reif -- Creating nanostructures with lasers / Paolo M. Ossi and Maria Dinescu -- Laser micromachining / Jürgen Ihlemann -- Laser processing architecture for improved material processing / Frank E. Livingston and Henry Helvajian
Summary
Laser materials processing has made tremendous progress and is now at the forefront of industrial and medical applications. The book describes recent advances in smart and nanoscaled materials going well beyond the traditional cutting and welding applications. As no analytical methods are described the examples are really going into the details of what nowadways is possible by employing lasers for sophisticated materials processing giving rise to achievements not possible by conventional materials processing
