• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.653-654
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• 2006

In case of ultrashort laser ablation of metals, the transfer of energy from the electronic system causing strong absorption of laser light to the lattice needs relaxation times of the order of some picoseconds. Under the above theoretical background, nickel was ablated using femtosecond, picosecond and nanosecond laser. As a result, nickel ablation by picosecond laser and femtosecond laser, which are called ultrashort laser, has similar machinability because of relaxation time of metals, whereas nanosecond Nd:YAG laser has lower absorption, higher thermalization effect in comparison with ultrashort laser.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.38-41
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• 2008

Precise micropatterning of polypropylene film, which is highly transparent in the wavelength range over 250 nm has been demonstrated by 355 nm nano/picosecond laser and 785 nm femtosecond laser. Increments of both the pulse energy and the shot number of pulses lead to cooccurrence of photochemical and thermal effects, demonstrated by the spatial expansion of rim on the surface of PP. The shapes of the laser-ablated polypropylene films were imaged by optical microscope and measured by a 3D optical measurement system. And, the ablation depth and width of polypropylene film ablated by femtosecond laser at various pulse energy and pulse number were characterized. Our results demonstrate that a femtosecond pulsed laser is an efficient tool for fabricating micropatterns of polypropylene films, where the micropatterns are specifically tailored in size, location and number easily controlled by laser processing conditions.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제26권10호
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• pp.1427-1435
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• 2002

The main aim of the present article is numerically to investigate the micro-scale heat transfer phenomena in a silicon microstructure irradiated by picosecond-to-femtosecond ultra-short laser pulses. Carrier-lattice non-equilibrium phenomena are simulated with a self-consistent numerical model based on Boltzmann transport theory to obtain the spatial and temporal evolutions of the lattice temperature, the carrier number density and its temperature. Especially, an equilibration time, after which carrier and lattice are in equilibrium, is newly introduced to quantify the time duration of non-equilibrium state. Significant increase in carrier temperature is observed for a few picosecond pulse laser, while the lattice temperature rise is relatively small with decreasing laser pulse width. It is also found that the laser fluence significantly affects the N 3 decaying rate of Auger recombination, the carrier temperature exhibits two peaks as a function of time due to Auger heating as well as direct laser heating of the carriers, and finally both laser fluence and pulse width play an important role in controlling the duration time of non-equilibrium between carrier and lattice.

• 진공이야기
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.17-20
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• 2015

In this article, a historical and scientific review on the development of an ultrafast electron microscope is supplied, and the challenges in further improvement of time resolution under sub-picosecond or even sub-femtosecond scale is reviewed. By combining conventional scanning electron microscope and femtosecond laser technique, an ultrafast electron microscope was invented. To overcome its temporal resolution limit which originates from chromatic aberration and Coulomb repulsion between individual electrons, a generation of electron pulse via strong-field photoemission has been investigated thoroughly. Recent studies reveal that the field enhancement and field accumulation associated with the near-field formation at sharply etched metal nanoprobe enabled such field emission by ordinary femtosecond laser irradiation. Moreover, a considerable acceleration reaching 20 eV with near-infrared laser and up to 300 eV acceleration with mid-infrared laser was observed, and the possibility to control the amount of acceleration by varying the incident laser pulse intensity and wavelength. Such findings are noteworthy because of the possibility of realizing a sub-femtosecond, few nanometer imaging of nanostructured sample.in silicon as thermoelectric materials.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.117-129
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• 2013

We briefly review the recent progress in passively mode-locked fiber lasers (PMLFLs) based on semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs) and discuss the detailed characterization of a SESAM-based, passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber (EDF) laser operating in the 1.5-${\mu}m$ spectral range for various configurations. A simple and compact design of the laser cavity enables the PMLFL to generate either femtosecond or wavelength-tunable picosecond pulses with high stability as the intra-cavity filtering method is altered. All the cavities investigated in our experiments present self-starting, continuous-wave mode-locking with no Q-switching instabilities. The excellent stability of the source eventually enables the wavelength-tunable PMLFL to be used as a master oscillator for a power-amplifier source based on a large-core EDF, generating picosecond pulses of >10-kW peak power and >100-nJ pulse energy.

• 대한치과보철학회지
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• 제57권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2019

목적: 레이저를 이용한 치과 보철물 세라믹 복합소재 Lava Ultimate와 IPS e.max의 가공성 평가를 하고자 한다. 재료 및 방법: 3M, Lava Ultimate와 Ivoclar vivadent, IPS e.max의 가공성 평가를 위해 $CO_2$ 레이저, 피코초 레이저, 펨토초 레이저를 사용하였으며, 공초첨 현미경을 이용하여 가공 형상을 분석하였다. 결과: 세라믹 복합체의 취성 및 탄화, 균열 등은 소재의 열축적에 영향을 받고 레이저 출력 및 펄스 시간에 의해 제어가 가능함을 알 수 있었다. 결론: $CO_2$ 레이저를 이용하여 세라믹 복합소재 가공 시 미세 균열과 탄화가 즉시 발생하였으며, 피코초 레이저 가공의 경우 미세 균열은 일부 개선되었으나 탄화 현상은 지속적으로 발생되었다. 하지만 펨토초 레이저를 이용한 레이저 가공 시 출력 대비 높은 효율의 가공성을 확인하였으며, 특히 세라믹 레진 복합소재인 Lava Ultimate의 경우 펨토초 레이저를 이용하여 가공 시 가장 우수한 가공성을 보였다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.13-22
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• 2006

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.7-16
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• 2010

Physical fundamentals of ultrashort femtosecond lasers are addressed along with emerging applications for precision manufacturing and metrology. Femtosecond lasers emit short pulses whose temporal width is in the range of less than a picosecond to a few femtoseconds, thereby enabling extremely high peak-power machining with less thermal damages. Besides, the broad spectral bandwidth of femtosecond lasers constructed in the form of frequency comb permits absolute distance measurements leading to ultraprecision positioning control and dimensional metrology.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.239-240
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• 2006

For longer than picosecond pulses, bulk damage inside defect-free dielectrics involves the heating and multiplication of spurious electrons by the incident laser beam and transfer of this energy to the lattice. The situation is quite different for femtosecond pulses which are shorter than the time scale for electron energy transfer to the lattice. Damage caused by these pulses is produced with smaller statistical uncertainty and is controllable on a microscopic scale. These properties can be exploited to produce laser devices such as arrays of damage dots for all optical memories with high data storage density or arrays of parallel grooves to form transmission gratings. In this work, we observed characteristic of the femtosecond laser machining in BK7 and fused silica.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2003년도 제14회 정기총회 및 03년 동계학술발표회
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• pp.222-223
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• 2003

As laser pulse width becomes shortened from nanoseconds to femtoseconds, the effects caused by the dispersions of nonlinear optical mediums, such as group velocity mismatch and group velocity dispersion become considerably significant. The group velocity mismatch and group velocity dispersion are the major factors that lead to a decrease of frequency conversion efficiency and pulse spreading for picosecond and femtosecond pulses. (omitted)