Abstract:
Laser ablation of pure copper was investigated using photoacoustic signals excited in surrounding air when a pulsed-laser beam impinges a metallic surface.The photoacoustic signals were detected by means of deflection of a He-Ne probe beam in the experiment.The pulsed-laser ablation threshold of pure copper was determined according to the variation of the time-of-flight(TOF) of photoacoustic signals with the laser energy.A more practical method for theoretical evaluation of pulsed-laser ablation threshold is given in the paper.The measured pulse-laser threshold of pure copper was about 3.0 J/cm
2,which is closed to the theoretical value of 3.2 J/cm
2.It has been shown that the method of TOF of photoacoustic signals is reliable and simple for determining pulsed-laser ablation threshold of pure copper.