Ultrafast Laser Irradiation in Surface Engineering and Tribology

Dear Colleagues,

Ultrafast lasers in various engineering applications are attractive due to their green-manufactured, environmentally friendly, highly efficient, cost-effective, and fracture-resistant characteristics. Power density and irradiation duration can be controlled via the smart regulation of machining parameters and the assisted fields or mediums, which are continually sought after in physical/materials sciences, as well as chemical, energy, mechanical, and bioengineering fields. Additionally, potentially targeted materials could include metals, alloys, ceramics, polymers, composites, and biological tissues. These processes have complex mechanisms involving laser physics interactions with targeted substances, not limited to melt, solidification, vaporization, plasma formation, or the adjustment of their effective functions of proportion.

This Special Issue aims to promote the generation, transmission, modulation, signal processing, and switching control of industrial lasers, and various applications of laser machining technology both in simulations and experiments.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: laser physics, laser control, beam shaping, measurement, laser machining (e.g., cleaning, polishing, peening, texturing, cutting, drilling, welding, and cladding), and applied technologies in surface engineering and tribology.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Yanhu Zhang
Dr. Jinghu Ji
Dr. Hao Fu
Guest Editors

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