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- Title
Pulse Burst Generation and Diffraction with Spatial Light Modulators for Dynamic Ultrafast Laser Materials Processing.
- Authors
Fang, Zheng; Zhou, Tong; Perrie, Walter; Bilton, Matthew; Schille, Jörg; Löschner, Udo; Edwardson, Stuart; Dearden, Geoff
- Abstract
A pulse burst optical system has been developed, able to alter an energetic, ultrafast 10 ps, 5 kHz output pulse train to 323 MHz intra-burst frequency at the fundamental 5 kHz repetition rate. An optical delay line consisting of a beam-splitting polariser cube, mirrors, and waveplates transforms a high-energy pulse into a pulse burst, circulating around the delay line. Interestingly, the reflected first pulse and subsequent pulses from the delay line have orthogonal linear polarisations. This fact allows independent modulation of these pulses using two-phase-only Spatial Light Modulators (SLM) when their directors are also aligned orthogonally. With hybrid Computer Generated Holograms (CGH) addressed to the SLMs, we demonstrate simultaneous multi-spot periodic surface micro-structuring on stainless steel with orthogonal linear polarisations and cylindrical vector (CV) beams with Radial and Azimuthal polarisations. Burst processing produces a major change in resulting surface texture due to plasma absorption on the nanosecond time scale; hence the ablation rates on stainless steel with pulse bursts are always lower than 5 kHz processing. By synchronising the scan motion and CGH application, we show simultaneous independent multi-beam real-time processing with pulse bursts having orthogonal linear polarisations. This novel technique extends the flexibility of parallel beam surface micro-structuring with adaptive optics.
- Subjects
MANUFACTURING processes; OPTICAL diffraction; DELAY lines; SURFACE texture; HYBRID computers (Computer architecture); ADAPTIVE optics; SPATIAL light modulators
- Publication
Materials (1996-1944), 2022, Vol 15, Issue 24, p9059
- ISSN
1996-1944
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ma15249059