TY - CHAP AU - Vicente Afonso Ventrella ED - Dan C. Dumitras Y1 - 2012-03-09 PY - 2012 T1 - Pulsed Nd:YAG Laser Applied in Microwelding N2 - Discovered almost fifty years ago at Bell Labs (1964), the Nd:YAG laser has undergone an enormous evolution in the years, being now widely used in both basic research and technological applications. Nd:YAG Laser covers a wide range of topics, from new systems (diode pumping, short pulse generation) and components (a new semiorganic nonlinear crystal) to applications in material processing (coating, welding, polishing, drilling, processing of metallic thin films), medicine (treatment, drug administration) and other various fields (semiconductor nanotechnology, plasma spectroscopy, laser induced breakdown spectroscopy). BT - Nd YAG Laser SP - Ch. 13 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/36611 DO - 10.5772/36611 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-27 ER -