Experimental study of laser-induced plasma in welding conditions with continuous CO2 laser
- 1 November 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 74 (9), 5773-5780
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.355284
Abstract
Laser‐induced plasmas obtained during a welding process have been studied. Spectroscopic diagnostics and an integrating sphere collecting the reflected CO2 light are the principal diagnostics used in order to determine the spatial variations of the microscopic parameters such as electron density and temperature, and the energy absorption during this process. For several experimental processing conditions of shielding gases, the main perturbing effects such as absorption and refraction of the CO2 laser radiation are quantified. Several possibilities for reducing these perturbing effects are then discussed.Keywords
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