High Speed Pump-Probe Apparatus for Observation of Transitional Effects in Ultrafast Laser Micromachining Processes

Micromachines

Ilya Alexeev¹  Johannes Heberle¹  Kristian Cvecek¹  Konstantin Yu. Nagulin²  Michael Schmidt¹ 

[1] Institute of Photonic Technologies, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Konrad-Zuse-Straße 3, 91052 Erlangen, Germany;Kazan National Research Technical University, Karl Marx Street 10, 420111 Kazan, Russia;

关键词: imaging ultrafast phenomena;    ultrafast laser glass processing;    high-speed imaging;   

DOI  :  10.3390/mi6121462

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

A pump-probe experimental approach has been shown to be a very efficient tool for the observation and analysis of various laser matter interaction effects. In those setups, synchronized laser pulses are used to create an event (pump) and to simultaneously observe it (probe). In general, the physical effects that can be investigated with such an apparatus are restricted by the temporal resolution of the probe pulse and the observation window. The latter can be greatly extended by adjusting the pump-probe time delay under the assumption that the interaction process remains fairly reproducible. Unfortunately, this assumption becomes invalid in the case of high-repetition-rate ultrafast laser material processing, where the irradiation history strongly affects the ongoing interaction process. In this contribution, the authors present an extension of the pump-probe setup that allows to investigate transitional and dynamic effects present during ultrafast laser machining performed at high pulse repetition frequencies.

【 授权许可】

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