Laser Ablation and its Applications

Basic Physics and Simulations.- Numerical Simulation of the Expansion into Vacuum of a Crystal Heated by an Ultrashort Laser Pulse.- Fast Electronic Transport and Coulomb Explosion in Materials Irradiated with Ultrashort Laser Pulses.- New Methods for Laser Cleaning of Nanoparticles.- Plume Dynamics.- New Aspects of Laser-Induced Ionization of Wide Band-Gap Solids.- Ultrafast Interactions.- Three Dimensional Material Processing with Femtosecond Lasers.- Ultrafast Optical Measurements of Shocked Materials.- Time and Space-Resolved Spectroscopy.- Physical Chemistry of Ultrafast Laser Interactions with Solids.- Femtosecond Plasma-Mediated Nanosurgery of Cells and Tissues.- Material Processing.- Designed Polymers for Ablation.- Fabrication of Waveguides by Laser Deposition.- Pulsed Laser Deposition for Functional Optical Films.- Laser Forward Transfer of Electronic and Power Generating Materials.- Laser-matter interaction in novel regimes.- Development of Inertial Fusion Energy by Lasers.- Laser Space Propulsion.- Laser Propulsion Thrusters for Space Transportation.- Laser Propulsion.- Nano-Structuring Using Pulsed Laser Radiation.- Soft Laser Desorption Ionization - Maldi, Dios and Nanostructures.- Materials Modification with Intense Extreme Ultraviolet Pulses from a Compact Laser.- Laser Restoration of Painted Artworks.