High Power Lasers

Section headings and selected papers: Laser Surface Treatment. Properties of laser-nitrided surface layers on titanium, B L Mordike. Surface treatment by melting with laser, E Ramous. Laser Surface Coating and Alloying. Laser applications for steel surface alloying with carbon, E Ramous, A Tiziani & L Giordano. Effect of laser melting on eutectium of boriding layer on steel, Z Luting, S Huimeng & Z Jingpu. The Mechanism of Surface Modifications by Laser. Microstructure and microcracking of laser-glazed Fe-B-C surfaces, S Staniek & E Hornbogen. Effect of laser heating on the substructure of 0.4% carbon steel, M C Seegers, S Mandziej & J Godijk. Laser Machining. Laser cutting, M Querry. Defects arising from laser machining of materials, G E Garcia de Vicuna, J C Beitialarrangoitia & S K Ghosh. Research and Development in Laser Technology and Application. Measuring of surface roughness by holographic phase shifting interferometry, Ming Chang & C P Hu. Surface microanalysis with laser Fourier transform and synthetic hologram processing, E Soubari, P Meyrueis & M Torzynski. Author index.

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