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APPLIED OPTICS
Volume 54, Issue 29, Pages 8653-8663Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/AO.54.008653
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- EPSRC [EP/K030884/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K030884/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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This paper reports the development of an analytical model, with supporting experimental data, which quite accurately describes the key features of CO2 laser ablation of fused silica glass. The quantitative model of non-explosive, evaporative material removal is shown to match the experimental data very well, to the extent that it can be used as a tool for ablative measurements of absorption coefficient and vaporization energy. The experimental results indicated that a minimum of 12 MJkg(-1) is required to fully vaporize fused quartz initially held at room temperature, which is in good agreement with the prediction of the model supplied with input data available in the literature. An optimal window for the machining of fused quartz was revealed in terms of pulse duration 20-80 mu s and CO2 laser wavelength optimized for maximum absorption coefficient. Material removal rates of 0.33 mu m per J cm(-2) allow for a high-precision depth control with modest laser stability. The model may also be used as a parameter selection guide for CO2 laser ablation of fused silica or other materials of similar thermophysical properties. (c) 2015 Optical Society of America
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