Laser Cleaning of Neutral Attenuator Plate Based on Low Power Laser Diode

Abstract:

Laser cleaning is a non-contact, green and environmental cleaning method, which can effectively remove particulate contaminations of sizes as small as 0.1 μm without damage to the optics. But most laser cleaning devices are large and heavy, also expensive due to using large lasers such as CO2 laser, YAG Laser etc. In this work a low power LD was tried to clean fingerprint and dust contaminated on the surface of the attenuator glasses plates. In the laser cleaning experiment with low power diode the fingerprint grease can be efficient to be cleaned, but there is no evident effect for cleaning inorganic dust. The cleaning different degree of fingerprint contaminations was investigated at the variable laser parameters, including laser power and irradiation time. An optical microscope was used to analyze the cleaning effect. The results show that low power LD can effectively remove the fingerprint on the surface of absorptive-type attenuator glass plates. On the premise that the attenuator optics glasses are not damaged, the cleaning area increases with the increase of radiation time and laser power. The cleaning area doesn't change much with the variation of laser frequency when the other parameters are the same.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 614-615)
• Pages: 1547-1552
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.614-615.1547
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Xin Ji Gan*, Yan Chen, Lin Li
• Keywords: Laser Cleaning, Laser Diode, Low Power, Neutral Attenuator Plate

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