| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
MS&T24: Materials Science & Technology
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| Symposium
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Glasses and Optical Materials: Current Issues and Functional Applications
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| Presentation Title |
Laser Processing of Glass |
| Author(s) |
Rafael Comesana, Oscar Barro, Mónica Fernández-Arias, Félix Quintero, Pablo Pou-Álvarez, Raul Barciela, Ramón Soto, Ana Vilas, Juan Pou |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Juan Pou |
| Abstract Scope |
Since the first laser was built in 1960, the evolution of these devices has been extraordinary in terms of power, wavelength, beam quality, pulse duration, reliability, robustness, etc... In this way, today there is a wide variety of different types of lasers that can be used for glass processing.
Lasers allow controlling very precisely the energy supplied to the target material, in this case glass. And this can be done in terms of amount, duration (can be as short as femtoseconds) or volume.
Therefore, many different laser-assisted processes are available. In this paper some of those will be reported: Production of glass coatings on metallic substrates, manufacturing of glass parts, synthesis of glass nanofibers of different composition. These are just some examples of the possibilities that lasers offer to process glasses. And all these processes without loosening the extraordinary properties of glass. |