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Laser Physics and Technology

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Laser is undoubtedly one of the most important inventions of the twentieth century. Today, it is widely deployed for a cornucopia of applications including materials processing. Different lasers such as CO2, Nd:YAG, excimer, copper vapor, diode, fiber lasers, etc., are being used extensively for various materials processing applications like cutting, welding, brazing, surface treatment, peening, and rapid manufacturing by adopting conventional and unconventional routes with unprecedented precision. In view of its potential for providing solution to the emerging problems of the industrial materials processing and manufacturing technologies, a comprehensive program on laser materials processing and allied technologies was initiated at our laboratory. A novel feature-based design and additive manufacturing technologies facilitated the laser rapid manufacturing of complex engineering components with superior performance. This technology is being extended for the fabrication of anatomically shaped prosthetics with internal heterogeneous architectures. Laser peening of spring steels brought significant improvement in its fatigue life. Laser surface treatments resulted in enhanced intergranular corrosion resistance of AISI 316(N) and 304 stainless steel. Parametric dependence of laser welding of dissimilar materials, AISI 316M stainless steel with alloy D9, was established for avoiding cracks under optimum processing conditions. In the domain of laser cutting and piercing, the development of a power ramped pulsed mode with high pulse repetition frequency and low duty cycle scheme could produce highly circular, narrow holes with minimum spattered pierced holes. A review of these experimental and some theoretical studies is presented and discussed in this chapter. These studies have provided deeper insight of fascinating laser-based materials processing application for industrial manufacturing technologies.

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The authors express their sincere gratitude to Dr. P.D. Gupta, Director RRCAT, for his constant support and encouragement. Thanks are due to our collaborators: Prof A.K. Nath of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and Prof B.K. Gandhi of Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. The authors are also thankful to our collaborators and colleagues: Dr. S M Oak, Mr. K Ranganathan, Mr. R Sundar, and Mr. P. Hedaoo of Solid State Laser Division RRCAT for laser peening work. During the experimental work presented above, the technical supports of Mr. S.K. Mishra, Mr. C.H. Prem Singh, Mr. M.O. Ittoop, Mr. Abrat Varma, Mr. Anil Adbol, Mr. Ram Nihal Ram, and Mr. S.K. Perkar are thankfully acknowledged. One of the authors, Dr. C.P. Paul, acknowledges the enthusiastic collaboration and fruitful discussions with Prof. A. Khajepour, Prof. E. Toyserkani, Prof. S. Corbin, and Dr. M. Alimardani at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

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Kukreja, L.M., Paul, C.P., Kumar, A., Kaul, R., Ganesh, P., Rao, B.T. (2015). Lasers in Materials Processing. In: Gupta, P., Khare, R. (eds) Laser Physics and Technology. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 160. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2000-8_12

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