Cavity-enhanced detection’-3 can be used as a sensitive means of monitoring laser-surface interactions. In particular, it can detect the amount of material ejected from a solidor liquid-film surface when a laser beam is focused onto it. The tiny ablation plume is monitored inside an optical cavity by a fixed frequency continuous-wave (cw) probe beam. The photovaporization signal is produced by ...

The erbium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet (Er:YAG) laser has emerged as a possible alternative to conventional methods of bone ablation because of its wavelength of 2.94 μm, which coincides with the absorption peak of water. Over the last decades in several experimental and clinical studies, the widespread initial assumption that light amplification for stimulated emission of radiation (laser) ...

In this study, CuCl2 nanoparticles (NPs) synthesised via pulsed laser ablation in liquid (PLAL) were successfully employed to simultaneously detect glutamine and ammonia, with a limit of detection 20 nM up 1500 ppm, respectively. These NPs hold potential for non-invasive diagnosis monitoring various health conditions using urine sweat samples. The sensing mechanism relied on the plasmon peaks U...

In the recent years, laser ablation in liquid has become an increasingly important technique for the fabrication of NPs. this paper reports our recent studies on the generation of ZnO NPs by ablation of metal targets in aqueous environments using Q-switch Nd-YAG laser (λ=532nm) immersed in NaOH (0.1M). The Surface topography studied by atomic force microscopy revealed wider size distributio...

The nano-kinetics of colloidal particles and living cells with the colloidal particles were visualized by a newly developed video scope. The system of the new video scope has a feature of fine controlling the illumination conditions by using a single optical fiber. This characteristic enables one to obtain clear images of living cells and the motions of colloidal particles by light-scattering e...

An in situ Optical Emission Spectroscopy (OES) characterization was performed on Pulsed-Laser Ablation (PLA) process used for fullerene-like CNx thin film deposition at nitrogen pressures within the 5 – 100 mTorr range. Plumes were generated by ablation of pyrolytic graphite (99.99%) target using a (500 mJ, 7 ns, 1064 nm) Nd: YAG-pulsed laser. The spectra from the plume show, essentially, the p...

The ability to perform not only elementally but also isotopically sensitive detection and analysis at standoff distances is impor-tant for remote sensing applications in diverse ares, such as nuclear nonproliferation, environmental monitoring, geophysics, and planetary science. We demonstrate isotopically sensitive real-time standoff detection of uranium by the use of femtosecond filament-induc...

We report on high precision high speed micromachining of Al2O3 and AlN using pulsed near infrared fiber laser. Ablation thresholds are determined to be 30 J/cm2 for alumina and 18 J/cm2 for aluminum nitride. The factors influencing the efficiency and quality of 3D micromachining, namely the surface roughness, the material removal rate and the ablation depth accuracy are determined as a function...

Femtosecond laser ablation of metallic bulk crystals of Au, Ag and Cu was experimentally studied with laser pulse widths ranging from 120 fs through 800 fs at a center wavelength of 780 nm for micro-machining applications. Two different ablation regimes were found in terms of the laser fluence. The characteristic length of different ablation regimes was explained in terms of the optical skin de...